Analytic phonics

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Analytic phonics (sometimes referred to as analytical phonics{{Cite web|url=https://www.ldaustralia.org/utgp.html|title=Understanding Terminology of Grammar and Phonics - LDA - Learning Difficulties Australia|website=www.ldaustralia.org|date=23 May 2023 }} or implicit phonics{{cite web|url=http://www.nrrf.org/essay_Explicit_or_Implicit_Phonics.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517044202/http://www.nrrf.org/essay_Explicit_or_Implicit_Phonics.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-17|title=Explicit or Implicit Phonics: "Therein Lies the Rub", NRRF.org}}) refers to a very common approach to the teaching of reading that starts at the word level, not at the sound (phoneme) level. It does not teach the blending of sounds together as is done in synthetic phonics. One method is to have students identify a common sound in a set of words that each contain that same sound. For example, the teacher and student discuss how the following words are alike: pat, park, push and pen. Analytic phonics is often taught together with levelled-reading books,{{Cite web|url=https://vlc.ucdsb.ca/c.php?g=450121&p=3072763|title=LibGuides: Levelled Reading: Conversion Chart|first=Mary|last=Styles|website=vlc.ucdsb.ca}} look-say practice, and the use of aids such as phonics worksheets.{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/933/0044071.pdf|archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20170701074158/http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/933/0044071.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-07-01|title=Insight 17 A Seven Year Study of the Effects of Synthetic Phonics Teaching on Reading and Spelling Attainment, ISSN 1478-6796, Scottish Government, 2005}}

Analytic phonics can also help with spelling. For example, a student learns that the initial sound in pig is the same as that in pen and pat, so they conclude that they must write that sound with the same letter (grapheme) "p".{{Cite web |url=http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/Primary/phonicsdef.html |title=National Literacy Trust |access-date=2008-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521134105/http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/database/Primary/phonicsdef.html |archive-date=2008-05-21 |url-status=dead }}

Sometimes, analytic phonics is referred to as Implicit phonics

because the understanding of the sound-letters connection is implied and not necessarily taught directly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ednews.org/articles/528/1/Some-issues-in-phonics-instruction-Implicit-and-explicit-phonics-instruction/Page1.html |title=Education News |access-date=2008-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528034253/http://www.ednews.org/articles/528/1/Some-issues-in-phonics-instruction-Implicit-and-explicit-phonics-instruction/Page1.html |archive-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead }}

Analog phonics is a subset of analytic phonics that uses the onset-rhyme of many words. In the word snap, "sn" is the onset and "ap" is the rime (the part starting with the vowel). So, snap rhymes with map, sap, clap, and so on. {{Cite web|url=https://pre.education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/student-assessment/smart-teaching-strategies/literacy/writing/stage-2/spelling/onset-and-rime|title=Onset and Rime, NSW Government, Australia}}

Analytic phonics is different from synthetic phonics (that starts at the individual sound/phoneme level and builds up to the whole word), and whole language (that starts at the word level and does not encourage the use of phonics). It may, however, be used as a part of the balanced literacy approach.