[senco-forum] Re: Re: a definition of synthetic phonics

I have just found these definitions.
In which case, A-O and Hickey are both synthetic fonics,
and I have never known anyone who teaches analytic fonics!

A Systematic Review of the Research Literature on the Use of Phonics in the
Teaching of Reading and Spelling
Carole J. Torgerson *, Greg Brooks **, Jill Hall *
* University of York, ** University of Sheffield,
© The University of Sheffield 2006

Brooks’ definitions (Brooks, 2003, pp.11-12), which were in turn based on those 
of Strickland (1998, p.31), were as follows:

Synthetic phonics refers to an approach to the teaching of reading in which the
phonemes associated with particular graphemes are pronounced in isolation and
blended together (synthesized). For example, children are taught to take a 
singlesyllable word such as cat apart into its three letters, pronounce a 
phoneme for each letter in turn /k, æ, t/, and blend the phonemes together to 
form a word. Synthetic phonics for writing reverses the sequence: children are 
taught to say the word they wish to write, segment it into its phonemes and say 
them in turn, for example /d, ɒ, g/, and write a grapheme for each phoneme in 
turn to produce the written word, dog.

Analytic phonics refers to an approach to the teaching of reading in which the
phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not pronounced in isolation.
Children identify (analyse) the common phoneme in a set of words in which each
word contains the phoneme under study. For example, teacher and pupils discuss 
how the following words are alike: pat, park, push and pen. Analytic phonics for 
writing similarly relies on inferential learning: realising that the initial 
phoneme in /pɪg/ is the same as that in /pæt, pɑːk, pʊ∫/ and /pen/, children 
deduce that they must write that phoneme with grapheme <p>.

Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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