The battle between phonics-based reading and sight words reading has been on forever. How do you decide what’s best for your child? Those who adopt a whole language approach assert that children naturally learn to read when exposed to a…
What do good phonics lessons look like? A good phonics lesson begins with an explicit explanation of the sound-spelling being taught. For example, when teaching the letter 's' you would say: The letter s stands for the /s/ sound as…
Phonics instruction plays a key role in helping children comprehend text. You see, phonics instruction helps the child to map sounds onto spellings. This ability enables children to decode words. Decoding words aids in the development and improvement in word…