Editing Phonics (section)

===Embedded phonics with mini-lessons===
''Embedded phonics'', also known as ''Incidental phonics'', is the type of phonics instruction used in [[whole language]] programs. It is not ''systematic phonics''. Although phonics skills are de-emphasised in whole language programs, some teachers include phonics "mini-lessons" when students struggle with words while reading from a book. Short lessons are included based on phonics elements the students are having trouble with, or on a new or difficult phonics pattern that appears in a class reading assignment. The focus on meaning is generally maintained, but the mini-lesson provides some time for focus on individual sounds and the letters that represent them. Embedded phonics is different from other methods because instruction is always in the context of literature rather than in separate lessons about distinct sounds and letters; and skills are taught when an opportunity arises, not systematically.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/PRFbooklet.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/PRFbooklet.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Put reading first booklet, Partnership for reading, National institute for literacy, 3rd ed.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://literacytrust.org.uk/information/what-is-literacy/what-phonics/|title=What is phonics? National literacy trust, UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ldaustralia.org/utgp.html|title=Understanding Terminology of Grammar and Phonics, Learning diffeculties, Australia|access-date=2020-06-05|archive-date=2020-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605124753/https://www.ldaustralia.org/utgp.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>