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Learning to Read is Easy When Step by Step
One of the most hotly contested debates in education circles is the one concerning how a child will learn to read. Learning to read should be straightforward but in reality it is not. Each generation thinks they have discovered a new approach. The controversy called the ‘Phonics versus Whole Word Debate’ has it seems [...]
Why I’m Hooked on Phonics
The Internet enabled me to go back in time to when I learned to read. I found the set of graded books called readers I learned to read with. I now have the full set of these, to me, precious books. The amazing thing is I can remember vividly much of their content. Whitcombe and [...]
Phonics, Phonicks and Fonix
I have it seems, spent a lifetime trying to come to grips with the role phonics has in teaching a child, or anyone else for that matter, to read. Experience has taught me time and time again that phonics strategies are necessary when decoding print. But teaching a child to read involves so much more. My belief is most children [...]
Phonics for Kids – Developing Early Literacy Report 2002 (USA) Findings
“Literacy skills start developing the moment we’re born and it is literacy that enables a person’s ability to participate in society.” Timothy Shanahan. Chairman National Early Literacy Panel (USA) 2002. Thousands upon thousands of studies on early literacy have been undertaken because literacy is such an important skill for people living in modern society. Governments [...]
Phonics for Kids – Keep it Simple
Once upon a time when I decided I’d like to join the business world the only job I could get was that of a sales representative marketing educational products to primary schools in the state in which I lived. A sales job! At the time I didn’t think a sales job was all that great. [...]
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