Phonics and Decoding

Phonics is essential to learning to read accurately and quickly, and it leads to better comprehension of what is read. Studies show that a phonics-based reading program significantly improves a child’s chances of becoming a good reader—an essential skill since a child must first learn to read in order to learn.

Every subject a child will study going forward first requires that he be able to read and comprehend the material presented. If a child cannot read, he cannot succeed. That is why we created All About Reading, a program with a substantial emphasis on phonics instruction and decodable readers that ensures your child will learn to read.

In the process of learning phonics, your child will learn how to convert letters and letter combinations into sounds, and then how to blend the sounds together to form recognizable words. Your child then uses these letter-sound relationships to decode the words he is reading. This skill enables him to recognize familiar words accurately and automatically and to figure out how to pronounce and understand the meaning of new words.

Our readers are written specifically to be 100% decodable by your child at every level of our program. Your child can practice the words he is learning by reading fun and engaging stories, and he can be successful because he has been given the tools needed to read every word on the page.

Our step-by-step multisensory lessons will provide your child with many creative activities to both learn and practice phonics to ensure that this ability becomes a natural part of his reading skills. Plus, a wonderful side benefit of learning phonics is that it also improves your child’s ability to spell well.

We begin teaching phonics right in Level 1, because research proves phonics has the greatest impact on children’s reading achievement when it is taught at this early stage. And teaching your child to read well, and to find true pleasure in reading, is what we are all about.

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