To read English successfully, children must learn to turn the words they see in a text into sounds, and make sense of these sounds. It is important for children to learn letter-sound relationships because English uses letters in the alphabet to represent sounds.

 

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of learning to read by decoding words into voice sounds. Children learn how letters link to sounds (graphemes to phonemes), e.g. c as in ‘cat’, ll as in ‘fell’, ee as in ‘sheep’. Children use this phonics knowledge when they are reading and writing.

 

Use the link below view/download a copy of our Parents’ guide to phonics teaching in The Brier School.