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Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.

Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read.

Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.

Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch.

Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters t, p, a and s, they can start to build up the words: “tap”, “taps”, “pat”, “pats” and “sat”.

Children naturally learn to listen and speak from those around them, but when they learn to read this can sometimes be a big jump. Phonics helps children learn how to read by making associations between the sounds they know and the letters and words they are just beginning to recognise.

What is pronunciation? 

Pronunciation is how words are said, in a way that can be understood by others. You may know the meaning of the word, how to spell it, and how to use it grammatically in a sentence – but if people can’t understand you when you say it, then that is a pronunciation issue.

English language is complex. There’s plenty of words with the same spelling that mean different things (homographs) including bat (sports equipment or an animal) and wave (a hand greeting or action of the sea. There’s also lots of examples of words that sound the same but are spelt different (homophones). One such example is buy, by and bye. Whilst all pronounced the same, they have very different meanings.

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