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.
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...
When your child mispronounces words during conversation, you might think it’s adorable—and it often...
A frustrated parent sits at the kitchen table with their struggling six-year-old, laptop open...
Walk into some elementary school classrooms today and you’ll witness a troubling trend. Teachers...
Over the past five years, 42 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or adopted policies requiring schools to teach reading using evidence-based, Science of Reading-aligned methods. That’s…
If misinformation about dyslexia were harmless, this article wouldn’t need to exist. But the myths still circulating in schools, pediatric offices, and even some special education programs are actively delaying…
If you’re reading this because something feels off with your child’s reading, trust that instinct. Roughly one in five kids in any classroom shows signs of dyslexia, and most won’t…
If you’ve already sat through an IEP meeting and walked out feeling like the reading goals were soft, vague, or weirdly disconnected from what your child actually needs, you’re not…
When your child writes “sip” instead of “ship,” they’re not making a careless mistake. They’re missing a small but important skill. They haven’t yet learned that two letters, “s” and…
If you’ve spent any time in early literacy circles, you’ve probably noticed something strange: people argue about sight words. One camp says memorizing sight words is essential. Another says it’s…
Among kindergarten teachers, word sorting holds a quiet kind of reverence. It asks for nothing more than a small pile of word cards and a child willing to look closely,…
Most parents and teachers think of reading and writing as separate skills taught at different times of day. Reading comes first, the thinking goes, and writing follows once a child…
Walk into any kindergarten classroom, and you will see two very different books being handed to children learning to read. One says, “Sam can tap. Sam can nap.” The other…
When a child learns the short /a/ sound on Monday, blends CVC words on Tuesday, tackles digraphs on Wednesday, and then never returns to short /a/ again, something strange happens.…
