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Phonics Instruction in The Family Readers
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Phonics works. It is proven. It teaches children how to sound out new words. With phonics you can breathe a sigh of happy relief when your child encounters a new word--and gets it right.
Why Phonics Instruction?
“Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters (graphemes) of written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language. It teaches children to use these relationships to read and write words.”
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
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How The Family Readers promote phonics instruction
| The Family Readers storybooks are divided into 12 sets of six books each. |
| Sets 1-6: |
Short Vowels |
| Sets 7-9: |
Long Vowels |
| Sets 9-10: |
Consonant Blends, Numbers, Word Endings |
| Set 11: |
Phonics Clusters and Combinations |
| Set 12: |
Sight Word Practice, Diphthong, Digraphs, and Hard and Soft c and g. |
A child will learn to read by:
using language in conversation listening and responding to stories read aloud recognizing and naming the letters of the alphabet listening to the sounds of spoken language connecting sounds to letters to figure out the "code" of reading reading often so that recognizing words becomes easy and automatic learning and using new words understanding what is read
The Goal of Phonics Instruction
“The goal of phonics instruction is to help children learn and use the alphabetic principle--the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. Knowing these relationships will help children recognize familiar words accurately and automatically, and "decode" new words. In short, knowledge of the alphabetic principle contributes greatly to children's ability to read words both in isolation and in connected text.”
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
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Our reading-with-phonics storybooks teach children valuable skills:
Learn consonant sounds. Learn that a, e, i, o, and u are vowels. Learn sounds of digraphs. Example: /sh/ in shell. Learn sounds of consonant blends. Example: /bl/ in block and /str/ in string. Learn short vowel word families. Example: at, an, op, on, it, in. Break words into syllables. Find familiar words within unknown words. Example: mat in matter. Add or take away letters to make new words. Example: When asked to take away the letter t in the word tan, can the child say the word an? Can the child add the letter t to an to make the word ant?
Need more information?
Read a government study on Phonics instruction
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