Alphabetic Principle

The Alphabetic Principle involves the understanding that sounds of letters and that letters represent sounds are combined to form represent sounds are combined to form words. Between the spoken sounds and the written language, a connection is made. Based on a relationship between systematic sounds, written letters, and spoken words, letters and their combinations are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds. The Alphabetic Principle is composed of three parts. They are letter naming, alphabetic understanding, and phonological recording. In the letter naming, the child is able to recognize the upper and the lower case letters. In the alphabetic understanding, written words are composed of letters that represent spoken speech sounds. …show more content…
Phonics use the Alphabetic Principle to teach children the relationship between the sounds and the symbols. The students must learn how to recognize and decode words using the sound-symbol. Phonics help the student learn the relationship between letters and sounds. In other words, the student must learn what sound corresponds to what letter. According to Ruetzler and Cooter, the student must acquire certain concepts form the Alphabetic Principle. First, the student must know that the spoken words are made up of individual speech sounds or phonemes. Second, the print is composed of using the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. Third, the spoken sounds are represented by specific letters and letter combinations. When all the phonemes through the vowel form the body of a syllable is called the Body and Coda. The body of a syllable is when we combine the onset with a vowel. The coda is everything after the body. The body is the first part of a syllable including the volume sound and the coda is what is left. In other words, the body-coda involves breaking the syllable into two parts with the split occurring directly after the