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Close watch of the mouth and face by Ibinabo Festus-Briggs (Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria) The best way for a child to understand phonics is asking the child to come close to your face and watch your mouth move when making sounds. This will also enable the child see the facial expression when sounds are…

Why use children’s nursery rhymes? Using children’s nursery rhymes is a great way to build phonological awareness and provides welcome practice with phonograms and word families in a fun way…..you can only go so far with flashcards! Knowing how to rhyme will greatly improve your child’s auditory skills which is vital for pre-school phonics. And…

Before you embark on teaching the alphabet to your child…STOP! There are a few things to be aware of…. When asked “What is the first thing you should teach a child when they are learning to read?” Most people reply “the alphabet.” But there are in fact a few steps you can introduce to your…

Phonics Activity for Short Vowel Sounds 1. Print out or write on a large pieces of paper the vowels: a, e, i, o, u write in lower case. Scatter the vowels on the floor, but within jumping distance from each other. The object of this game is to get from one side of the room…

‘What is one phonics resource you can’t do without?’ – I imagine we would all have a variety of different answers, maybe ranging from books to computers to reading software and the like. (In fact that has got me wondering – What is the one phonics resource you can’t do without? – Scroll down to see what others…

How to Have Kids That Read Most schools are very good at teaching children HOW to read but they have forgotten to teach them to WANT to read. Here are some ideas how to help turn our children into LIFETIME readers or Reading Kids The TOP tip is to read aloud to them! Research has shown that children who…