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Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading

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Note the Difference

• Explicit Instruction
• After a lesson in which students isolate words that begin with the /k/ sound, the teacher links the sound to the letter by showing students the letter, telling them it stands for the /k/ sound, and using c to practice making words that begin with /k/.
• Implicit Instruction
• After reading a story about animals, teacher asks students “what sound does cow begin with? Do you see any other animals whose names begin with that sound? What letter says /k/? Can you write the letter c?”