[senco-forum] a defintion of synthetic phonics

        Analytic Phonics 

    Synthetic Phonics
      Starts at whole word level
  It starts with the end product and analyses it
    starts with sounds /letters -
  starts with the building blocks and puts them together – synthesises them to make words
      Attention may be drawn to larger units within words e.g. syllables blends, onsets and rimes
    Only phoneme-grapheme correspondences are taught
      The focus is on noticing and discovering patterns and tendencies within written English
    The focus is on systematically teaching the alphabetic principle
      There is often a focus on just one part of the word (e.g. initial sound)
    There is a focus on blending and segmenting sounds all through the word
      Tends to be associated with slower pace
    Rapid introduction of phoneme grapheme correspondences.

Martin I couldn't have put it better myself.  Alice, this is a table I have used to illustrate some of the the key differences, dont know if this helps?

  Julie

  Mmilesep at aol.com wrote: 

In a message dated 09/10/2007 20:30:10 GMT Daylight Time, 
alice.chenneour at btinternet.com writes:

I would really like to pick your brains on how you would describe synthetic 
phonics in relation to analytic phonics - it's just that when I put it to 
staff that the focus of literacy teaching had moved from an approach which 
favoured analytic phonic to one favouring synthetic phonics, they jumped on this 
saying that all phonics teaching was largely of the synthetic variety. I did 
point out teaching literacy along the lines of onset and rime was an example 
of the analytical approach but I flapped. What do you understand by these 
terms!?

You either synthesis or analyse. Synthesise - build up; analyse break down.

So, the word "Cat" can be synthesised or built up from the phonemes /c/ /a/ 
/t/ or can be analysed or broken down from the whole word to its separate 
sounds. Also same analysis applies to the onset (initial sound) and rime (rest 
of the word).

Sounds first or words first? Discuss. Where are you Julie?

Martin

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