Simplifies the English language into 44 sounds to help children to learn to read words and spell words without memorizing thousands of words individually
Learning to read
1. Say the individual sounds (phonemes) that make up a word
2. Merge the sounds together (blending) to say the word
Learning to write
1. Say the word and break it down (segmenting) into phonemes
2. Write the letter or letters (graphemes) that represent the phonemes
Overview of 6 Phonics Phases
Oral blending and segmenting using images and early letter recognition
19 most common single letter sounds and some digraphs
7 remaining single letter sounds, digraphs and some trigraphs
Digraphs, trigraphs, adjacent consonants and common spelling patterns
Digraphs, adjacent consonants, silent letters and split digraphs
Prefixes, suffixes, past tense, high frequency words and spelling rules
