Understand phonics with this super-helpful tool kit for parents! BBC Homepage. ... There’s no special way to treat blends – simply blend the letter sounds in the word as normal.

Phonics is taught “synthetically” when it progresses from parts to whole: children learn to sound out each letter or letter combination in a word and then blend those sounds to the ...

Decades of research have shown that phonics instruction—teaching children how letters represent sounds, and how to blend those sounds together to make words—is the most effective way to get ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long.

In synthetic phonics, students learn letter-sound correspondences first, and then blend those together to sound out words. Analytic phonics takes the opposite approach: ...

A debate over emphasizing “phonics” or “whole language” has been heard ever since. The first is skills-based instruction, in which children learn sounds and letter blends that make up ...

A whole language approach to teaching reading gives kids a whole linguistic picture of how words work. This includes teaching individual letters and sounds, as well as what the words mean in context.