Phonics, the connection between individual letters and its sound, are the building blocks to reading. Early readers sound out and decode words to make meaning. Read about the debate between teaching phonics and whole language learning, phonics instruction, and how to nurture your child’s phonemic awareness.
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Phonograms
One-syllable words and syllables in longer words can be divided into two parts, the onset and the rime: The onset is the...
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Phonics Instruction
Few areas of education and pedagogy have been debated as exhaustively, continuously, and perhaps as rancorously as those...
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Routines to Teach Letters of the Alphabet
The most basic information children learn about the alphabet is how to identify and form the letters in handwriting....
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Procedures and Materials to Stimulate Growth of Phonemic Awareness
A large array of programs and sets of materials have been developed specifically to help teachers provide effective...
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The National Reading Panel (NRP) Report (2000)
The NRP was convened in 1997 in response to a congressional directive to review the scientific literature and determine...
