Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. The s, a, t, p sounds Help the wizards to make words and captions with s, a, t and p in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide ...

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Phase 4 phonics can feel trickier to teach than phonics phases 2 and 3, because there are no new letter-sound correspondences (grapheme-phoneme correspondences) to learn. This is a teaching phase ...

Parents need to know that Hooked on Phonics Learn & Read is a subscription-based program that progresses from teaching letter recognition to reading full words and simple stories. Kids follow a set ...

DIANE PHILIPSON is a former primary school teacher who spends her days at home in Newcastle coaching children who are struggling to read. This week she had phone calls from two desperate mothers who ...