Jessica Mantei and Lisa Kervin, ALEA Practically Primary, Vol 24, No2, 2019.
In this article, published in ALEA’s Practically Primary, Jessica Mantei and Lisa Kervin explore the many ways teachers can be ‘systematic’ in their assessment and teaching of phonics. They suggest that teachers constantly draw on their extensive knowledge about the teaching of literacy; namely the needs of their learners and the way the content they are teaching is actually used in context of the reader’s meaning making. In particular, they demonstrate that there is no single pedagogical approach that is superior to others. They share several approaches currently used in today’s classrooms.