Mrs Firpo Ang Chapter 1 Summary

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Week 4 Journal Mrs Firpo in Chapter 5 of your text has some great ideas. Analyse what she does – what is she doing and why? Mrs Firpo is teaching a segment of phonic concepts and rules to children who are at the beginning stages of their literacy development. Because the English language is not a purely phonetic language system (Tompkins, Campbell & Green, 2012, p. 13), students need explicit instructions to enhance their literacy skills (Tompkins et al., p. 140). The significance of Mrs Firpo's literacy teaching is that she is using the blending sounds to form words strategy to demonstrate how the same letter /y/ can produce different sounds when written with other word groups, thus, phonemic awareness (Tompkins et al., 2012,…show more content…
15), synthesising reading and writing lessons facilitate development of students' phonological awareness and graphophonic knowledge. Thus, they assert the correlation between reading and writing (Bear et al., 2008, p. 21). Similarly, Westwood (1999, p. 13) presents Andrew and Scarratt's cognitive theory of how children develop lexical (vocabulary) storage by integrating reading and writing. Mrs Firpo effectively synchronises reading and writing within her phonic lessons. For example, after 15 minutes of oral activity she assesses students' learning's with a spelling practice to see if they can decode and spell the new words accurately- cognitive processing (Tompkins et al., 2012, p. 129). I understand that assessment is a vital element of the teaching and learning process and there are guidelines to assist teachers develop writing skills (Tompkins et al., 2012, pp. 155-156). In addition, the spelling test is a strategy that can identify, monitor and diagnose students who have learnt the concept and students who need additional support. Moreover, Annandale et al. (2005) identify spelling assessment as a means of teaching students writing skills. I understand that arming students with phonetical strategies and increasing students word bank is part of being an effective

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