With renewed interest in phonics teaching, there is currently a wide range of software available to support early reading using synthetic phonics. Through the use of ICT-based phonics books, clear connections can be made between sounds and letters on a page. Learning to read is a long and difficult process, and many children struggle to concentrate when using books alone – increasing concentration and attention time is a key advantage to ICT. Many children view software differently from ICT – perceiving it to be more exciting. There are lots of audio-based reading schemes now available to schools, many of which offer significant advantages over books. For struggling readers, there are also many software-based reading intervention programs available that can dramatically improve children’s achievement. Some feature speech recognition software and integrated assessment for learning.
So, on 16th August , 2021 I taught a lesson on the topic “phonics sound”. The skill on focused was use of Teaching learning materials. Children have the knowledge of the sound as children now a days they watch the video and sounds in the you tube and from the very beginning of the academic year sounds are introduced. In the first activity I demonstrated or told the sounds using the cards.
In the 2nd activity I showed them video, screened on the wall using the projector, computer and
the two speaker. The children were observing and singing at the same time in line with the video played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btvnID6Z_ATGC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1blVh1ZQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sWqFX-QV90
In the 3rd activity I gave card to individual children, then came one by one in front to tell the sounds where friends were watching and giving cheers . Finally, I played the same video but this time without audio. Here the children were made to sing the song together. Thus, building confidence in singing and using the correct phonics of all the 26 English alphabets. The learning of phonics was successful.
Children showing of cards and telling the sounds. As a whole my lesson went very well but, if I were to teach the same lesson on same topic I will make more interesting by using more video clips in various ways.
