What is Phonics?
Phonics teaches children how to decode letters into their respective sounds. Teaching children to blend sounds together helps them to decode words by themselves. For example when a child is taught the sounds for 'a' and 't', they can start to read the word 'at'.
Effective phonic lessons are important because letter-sound knowledge is the foundation needed to build up reading and writing abilities. We use Unlocking Letters and Sounds programme to deliver our phonic sessions.
Reading
Reading requires skills such as a good understanding of vocabulary, the ability to extract inferences, and to synthesise and hold information across several sentences. But if your single word reading is not efficient, comprehension is going to be dramatically affected.
If we use building a house as an analogy, understanding text is the complete home; single word reading ability is the structural frame of the house, and phonics is the foundation of that frame.