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 ...
Teaching young kids to crack that code teaches them how to read words. “Beginning reading instruction needs to emphasize decoding—letters, sounds, phonemic awareness, sounding out words ...
This includes the systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) scheme, which teach children to read by breaking words down into their individual sounds and is pushed too early. As well as the dreaded ...