Teaching young students to read is complex as it’s a skill that includes understanding the relationship between letters and sounds as well as learning to read some words by sight. Keeping this tricky process motivating can be tough for teachers and parents. To actively engage students in reading, try these three games, all of which can be used to revise targeted phonics sounds and sight… Read More
There is a wide variety of phonics teaching schemes, such as Jolly Phonics, Musical Phonics, and Letters and Sounds, and parents can struggle to know which is best. The good thing to know is that all these different programs come down to a similar set of steps. The guide below shows the key principles and tips to learning phonics foundations. As long as your child… Read More
Reading is an essential life skill as it helps us learn everything else. Phonics instruction is now a key part of learning to read, but that wasn’t always the case. As an Indian born and raised in Hong Kong, I studied English as a second language in school. I didn’t enjoy it much since we learned from long, complex textbook passages and nightmarish weekly dictations. Read More
Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds. It involves the recognition of sounds of individual letters and letter groups, as well as the skills of blending and segmenting letter sounds and sound clusters. It is important for English learners to study phonics from a young age since it serves as a fundamental building block that enhances their all-round abilities in English. One key way… Read More
