So keep playing those rhyming, sound games and reading together to explore words, expand their language and help their early communication skills. Phonics just means matching the sounds that make ...

Teach letter recognition and sounds before introducing words. Use phonics-based learning, where kids learn how letters and ...

You can focus on initial sounds (cat, cow, cot, pig), rhyming words (bat, mat, hat, pot) or a particular area of phonics your child is working on. This game allows you to focus on sounds your ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...