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 ...
This is the term used to capture the centuries-old division in education on which method is best for teaching reading: an approach that focuses heavily on the sounds letters make and how they combine ...
Before this stage though, children have been learning phonics skills since they were born; differentiating between sounds such as their mother’s voice and a phone ringing, or trees rustling and ...