Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Before this stage though, children have been learning phonics skills since they were born; differentiating between sounds such as their mother’s voice and a phone ringing, or trees rustling and ...

Alphablocks is the only pre-school magazine all about phonics - and we have some free downloadable activities from it to help your children with early reading skills. You can either read this simple ...

At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the ...

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