Phonics is a method for approaching teaching student how to both read and write. One of them main focuses when reading is to sound out words. Over my teaching career I have taught using both phonics and whole language as my core startegies. I have found students that begin their pre-reading skills with phonics end up being better spellers later in life. My guess is that it is because they started reading words by always sounding out the word.

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