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Phonics and the Research 1. Begin Teaching at an Early Age 2. Teach each sound-spelling explicitly. 3. Teach frequent, highly regular sound-spelling relationships systematically. 4. Show children exactly how to sound out words. 5. Use connected, decodable text as they learn. 6. Use interesting stories to develop language comprehension. 7. Balance, but don't mix. Read the full research How to Teach Children to Read 2. Teach each sound-spelling correspondence explicitly. Not all phonic instructional methods are equally effective. Telling the children explicitly what single sound a given letter or letter combination makes is more effective in preventing reading problems than encouraging the child to figure out the sounds for the letters by giving clues. Many children have difficulty figuring out the individual sound-spelling correspondences if they hear them only in the context of words and word parts. Phonemes must be separated from words for instruction. Telling the children explicitly what single sound a given letter or letter combination makes is more effective in preventing reading problems than encouraging the child to figure out the sounds for the letters by giving clues. Explicit instruction means that a phoneme is isolated for the children. For example, the teacher shows the children the letter m and says, "This letter says /mmm/." In this way a new phoneme is introduced. A new phoneme and other phonemes the children have learned should be briefly practiced each day, not in the context of words, but in isolation. These practice sessions need only be about 5 minutes long. The rest of the lesson involves using these same phonemes in the context of words and stories that are composed of only the letter-phoneme relationships the children know at that point.

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