by Vicky | Jun 13, 2022 | Phonics
One question that often comes up when I am teaching phonics is “why is phonological awareness and phonemic awareness important to young learners?” There are 3 main building blocks to cracking the code of reading and writing from an early age. These are; Phonological...
by Vicky | Apr 29, 2022 | Phonics
What is a Syllable? A syllable is a single sound or a beat in a word. Learning about syllables shows a learner that words are made up of units of sound. These units of sound are syllables. Understanding syllables will improve reading and spelling...
by Vicky | Jan 20, 2022 | Phonics
Teaching phonics to early learners has become a large part of the classroom environment in recent years but the jargon that goes with it can seem like a foreign language to some of us. Our little ones come home with worksheets asking us to match the phoneme in words...
by Vicky | Apr 11, 2021 | Phonics
Phonics is the skill of matching the sounds that we use to speak with one letter or a group of letters. Phonics gives learners the tools to unlock letter codes to read and write without the mystery. Letters of the English alphabet have names and sounds. We...
by Vicky | Mar 30, 2021 | Mindset, Phonics
At the end of a day of work, there can be a simple practice of wrapping things up and shutting down for the day. But so many of us feel guilty at simply stopping, and this feeling that we should be doing more … it drives some of us to keep going as long as we can....
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