At every stage of learning to read, children master new phonics skills and patterns. Any word that doesn’t fit what they already know is called an ‘exception’ word. Many exception words are ...

Lively international fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts are the basis for teaching reading and writing skills, including comprehension, grammar, punctuation, phonics, spelling and handwriting.

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

Phonics is a method of teaching reading, writing, and spelling by focusing on the relationship between sounds and letters or ...