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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Phonemic Problems
Within the last decade, a great deal of research has demonstrated that students with learning disabilities have...
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Knowledge of the Alphabet
Research shows us that children who know the names and shapes of letters when formal reading instruction begins are more...
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Syllabication Rules
During the middle grades, students learn to read and write multisyllabic words by dividing them into individual...
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Developing the Concept of Rhyme
Recognizing and producing rhyming words is an essential part of phonemic awareness. To develop the concept of rhyme,...
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Phonics Instruction
Few areas of education and pedagogy have been debated as exhaustively, continuously, and perhaps as rancorously as those...
