![]() ![]() The reason phonics is so widely used is that research shows it works! That’s why the official school curriculum says that children need to be taught to read using a systematic phonics system. Most schools in the UK now teach reading through phonics. Phonics means using letter sounds to help you read words. ![]() Image: iStock So, what is phonics, and why is it so important? Children are taught to recognise these words on sight – a few of these words are introduced and learnt at a time. This includes crucial words like ‘the’, ‘one’, ‘where’, etc. High-frequency words (also known as ‘common exception words’): the very important, very common words which we use a lot, but which aren’t always decodable using phonics. ‘r-e-d’ or ‘s-au-ce-p-a-n’.īlending: running the sounds in the word together to read the whole word, e.g. Sounding out: using your phonic knowledge to help you say each sound within a word, e.g. The word ‘through’ is longer, but it also has three phonemes, ‘th’, ‘r’ and the ‘oo’ sound in ‘ough’. the word ‘mat’ has three phonemes, ‘m’, ‘a’ and ‘t’. Phoneme: the sound a letter or group of letters make – e.g. ![]() Some graphemes are single letters like ‘a’ others are digraphs like ‘ai’.ĭigraph: two letters that make one sound together, like ‘sh’, ‘ai’, ‘oo’. Grapheme: a written letter or group of letters, like ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘she’ or ‘air’. Phonics: using the sounds made by individual letters and groups of letters to read words.ĭecoding: using your phonic knowledge to sound out and read words. #TALKING ALPHABET ALPHABET PHONICS HOW TO#It can be a bit of a puzzle to work out how best to support your child through the early stages of reading, especially since teaching methods may have changed quite a bit since you were at school! Read on if you’d like to find out what to expect as your child builds their reading skills, how to help them – and how you can both have fun while you do so! Phonics buzz-words - decoded! Children learn a lot through play – but these days, reading skills are also taught systematically, from the earliest days in nursery or reception class right through their first years in primary school. From making friends to confidence with letters and numbers, there’s a lot to learn when starting school. ![]()
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