Phonics Contribute to Vocabulary and Fluency

Phonics Contribute to Vocabulary and Fluency
By B. J. Fox
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Phonics is the relationship among letters and sounds, the approach for teaching these relationships, and a shortcut for word learning. Although kindergartners and first and second graders know many spoken words, they know relatively few written words. The challenge for these children is to develop a large reading vocabulary in a short period of time. Children use phonics as a bridge between the spoken words they already know and the written words they do not recognize.

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