Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Current government policy concerning reading favours synthetic phonics (SP), where children learn to recognise letters with their associated sounds – and how to blend those sounds to "read" the "words ...

Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word. from www.shutterstock.com The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, ...