The key to teaching phonics well is not just teaching them their ABCs, you must know the ABCs, but it's not just teaching them, helping them to learn letter/sound correspondences, but it's finding ...

With the alphabet complete ... At every stage of learning to read, children master new phonics skills and patterns. Any word that doesn’t fit what they already know is called an ‘exception ...

All of the phonics I teach, starting with the alphabet song, is very explicit ... make up words — which is a very important ...

The way we teach phonics (and as a result, reading and writing) has changed a lot over the last couple of decades, so your own memories of learning ABCs might not match your child’s way of ...