
Unlike learning words by sight and shape, phonics has provided students with the ability to learn a skill that enables them to work out how to read almost any word in the English language. Phonics was first introduced in the UK in 2012 and since then has had great results. Learning phonics and learning to read is one of the most important stepping stones in early education as it gives your child the skills they need to move forward in every subject, you simply cannot progress without it.Īll over the UK (and now in some primary schools in New Zealand and Australia), schools are using phonics as their preferred method of learning to read. Sounds are taught from easiest to hardest: starting with single letter sounds and then moving on to two letters making a sound and then three and so on.

Research has shown that phonics, when taught correctly, can be the most effective way of teaching children to learn to read. Children learn to 'decode' words by breaking it down into sounds rather than having to memorise 1,000's of words individually. Phonics works by breaking each word up into it’s individual sounds before blending those sounds back together to make the word.
