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The Works People: Phonograms

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This highly interactive app enables students to practice, embed, and build automaticity with a standardized collection of the 91 most commonly found phonograms in written English. A phonogram is a precise unit of sound and its matching written symbol. Some are single letter phonograms like the letter ‘t’, the letter ‘d’, or the letter ‘m’. Others are multiple letter phonograms like au, ow, ough, eigh, ear, sh, and many others. Each of them makes at least one sound. Some can make more than one sound like ow. It can say /ow/ like in ‘cow’ or /o/ like in ‘low’ so its name is /ow/, /o/.

Most methods start with short sounds only, then ‘surprise’ students with more sounds later. This app provides practice with ALL the sounds made by each phonogram in order of frequency used. For example, the letter ‘a’ has three sounds…/ă/, /a/, /ah/. First sound /ă/ is used more frequently in spelling English words than /a/ which is used more frequently than the much rarer /ah/. Sounds are taught in this order.

Success with any spoken and written language is, of course, dependent upon developing an understanding of the sound/symbol relationships inherent in that language. Students who stumble with reading have not mastered the beginning sound/symbol relationships. These phonograms become the foundation stones for English literacy.

The app cultivates both decoding (reading the phonograms by giving the sounds they say) and encoding (spelling the phonograms by matching their sounds with the correct written symbol). Both are essential for learning to read and spell.
Students begin learning the first 26 phonograms. Phonograms are colored coded. The first 26 are yellow. Phonograms 27-70 are buff. The rare phonograms 71-91 are green. They learn what sound the letter ‘t’ says. They learn that the two letter phonogram ‘qu’ says /kw/ and the letter ‘q’ must always have its partner letter ‘u’.

Students learn the sounds symbols make by placing the cursor over each phonogram and left clicking. The app then speaks the sounds the phonogram makes. The goal is for students to say the sounds of each phonogram before clicking the mouse, then click to reinforce what they are learning.

The last section enables students to test themselves by clicking on a number, hearing the sound or sounds of the corresponding phonogram, then writing the phonogram that matches the sound they hear.

This interactive app keeps phonograms as simple as possible. It adheres to traditionally and historically researched standards for sound/symbol relationships and avoids basing sounds on regionalisms.

Of course, simply knowing the initial set of phonograms is only a beginning. After reasonable mastery, students need to know how these phonograms work together legally to create words.

There are at least five operational vocabularies which are very much interconnected but still quite separate and unique. Speaking and listening vocabularies are developed as we grow up in a particular culture. The more developed a child’s speaking and listening vocabularies before learning to read, the greater the potential for developing solid reading skills. Growing proficiency with speaking and listening, reading and comprehension, spelling and writing, and syntax vocabularies are all necessary to creating the desired success with student literacy.

Reading instruction is all about learning as many words as possible. That is why a tool that gives students the sound/symbol information like this Interactive Phonogram App is so imperative. The goal is to find an effective way to build a student’s vocabulary at every level. But what systematic method exists that provides this kind of effective instruction?

This particular ‘methodology’ is the next line of defense. We need to find a method that systematically takes these phonograms and embeds them in a logical way so literacy flourishes. Fortunately such a method exists thanks to the research of Dr. Samuel T. Orton. We are The Works People.

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