What is Phonics?

Phonics is said to be the MAGIC KEY that unlocks and opens the door to the wonderful world of reading. Learning to read by Phonics is merely converting the letters of our American alphabet into their respective sounds.  Phonics is the natural and logical way to learn to read.

    

Phonics is the science of sounds as it applies to letters or groups of letters called phonograms.  

                   

Since words form from the sounds that the letters make, we begin with teaching the sounds and not the names of the alphabet letters if they have not yet been learned. This lightens up the task load and gets them on the road to reading in a speedier time frame.

Without the use of Phonics, the love of reading is undeveloped, comprehension is misunderstood, the vocabulary is limited, and Spelling becomes difficult.

Janice Porter