Your family plays a big role in helping your child learn to read and write. With the right phonics activities at home, you can support your child’s literacy development and academic success. The more you understand how and why phonics instruction works, the better you can facilitate effective and meaningful learning experiences with your family.
To help your child practice phonics at home, read our insights for parents below! You can also browse our phonics program reviews for more.
You open a picture book with your four-year-old. The words dance across the page...
Your child snuggles beside you on a cold December evening, eyes bright with anticipation...
The twinkling lights are up, cookies are baking, and your eager young reader wants...
Picture a seven-year-old who can explain the water cycle in stunning detail, design elaborate...
Rachel teaches first grade in a suburban elementary school. Last year, she watched five...
You open the package with equal parts excitement and dread. Inside sits your investment...
Your kindergartener writes “doy” instead of “boy.” Your first grader reads “was” as “saw.”...
Your child was making steady progress. Each week brought new letter sounds, longer words,...
Your child loves playing Bookworm on your tablet. They’re making long words and racking...
Imagine two classrooms down the hall from each other. Same grade level, similar student...
Right now, you’re reading these words without thinking about how you’re doing it. Your brain is instantly converting letters into sounds and sounds into meaning, all in milliseconds. But there…
Most parents celebrate when their child can sound out words on a page. That’s a huge milestone. But here’s what often gets overlooked: decoding is not the finish line. A…
Before a child ever sees a letter on a page, their brain is already building the architecture for reading. It happens through thousands of hours of being spoken to, sung…
Your child passed the eye exam with flying colors, but they still mix up “b” and “d,” lose their place on the page, and get frustrated every time they sit…
Your family speaks Spanish at home, but your child is learning to read in English at school. Or perhaps your household runs on Mandarin, Arabic, or Somali, and your kindergartener…
Most people assume phonics and hearing loss don’t belong in the same sentence. After all, phonics is about sounds, and hearing loss means limited access to sound, right? It’s a…
Your toddler points at the dog, lights up with excitement, but stays silent. Meanwhile, the child next door is already stringing sentences together. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.…
There’s a moment that many first-grade parents describe with the same kind of wonder, the moment their child picks up a book and just… reads it. Not perfectly, not without…
There is a well-documented shift that occurs around third grade, which literacy researchers have studied for decades. In the early grades, children are learning to read. By third grade, they…
Here’s something that surprises many parents: phonics learning doesn’t begin in kindergarten. It begins in the bathtub. It begins in the car. It begins every time your toddler claps along…
