Phase 4 phonics can feel trickier to teach than phonics phases 2 and 3, because there are no new letter-sound correspondences (grapheme-phoneme correspondences) to learn. This is a teaching phase ...

These phonics games for Year 1 from literacy resources website Plazoom will develop pupils’ segmenting skills. They’ll practise identifying the phonemes (sounds) in words and choosing the correct ...

In teaching, time is of the essence. Even seasoned teachers feel pressured. In reading instruction, this can cause us to overlook, at the start of our phonics lessons, two critical practices: ...

Over the last few weeks, our focal theme here in Educators Technology has been early literacy development resources and more specifically those related to phonological and phonemic awareness. After we ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

Parents need to know that Touch and Write Phonics is a beginning phonics and letter-tracing app that includes 18 fun "writing textures" -- pudding, pumpkin pie, pink chalk, and more -- as well as 35 ...