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Master teacher and polymath Sue-Belinda Meehan joins Steve Austin to share her top tips for improving reading skills and the important role that phonics play in developing your child's vocabulary.

For example, look at the sentence: “Chris is a phonics teacher.” ‘Is’ here is the main verb because it links the expression ‘phonics teacher’ to the subject ‘Chris’. OK.

Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything ...

The key to teaching phonics well is not just teaching them their ABCs, you must know the ABCs, but it's not just teaching them, helping them to learn letter/sound correspondences, but it's finding ...

Phonics was the dominant teaching system until the 1960s when new methods arrived, such as teaching children to learn whole words without mastering the alphabet "by rote" ...

Systematic phonics instruction helped children learn to read better than all forms of control group instruction, including whole language. In sum, systematic phonics instruction proved effective and ...

There is no definite age when a child should start learning phonics although most of the early years educators ensure that children are ready to begin this stage of development in their first year ...