Phonics: A Comprehensive Guide for Families

When attending parent-teacher meetings or conversing with educators from Prep to Year 2, you’ll often hear about the essential role phonics plays in a child’s educational journey. Phonics involves recognising the alphabet, understanding the visual representation of each letter, mastering their formation during writing, and identifying the distinct sounds that each letter and specific letter combinations produce when pronounced.

Phonics is crucial for early literacy development as it equips children with the foundational skills to decode words, improve reading fluency, and enhance their spelling abilities. Learning phonics supports children in recognising the relationship between letters and sounds, providing them with tools to tackle unfamiliar words and develop their reading comprehension skills.

The Literacy Hub offers a variety of strategies and resources designed to assist you in supporting your child’s phonics learning at home. By engaging in phonics activities and games, reading together, and encouraging your child to sound out words, you can significantly reinforce what they learn in the classroom.

For more insights, visit the Literacy Hub's dedicated page for families: https://www.literacyhub.edu.au/for-families/phonics-a-guide-for-families/

Additionally, to explore a broader range of literacy topics, including the 'Big Six' components of literacy, check out this guide: https://www.literacyhub.edu.au/for-families/the-big-six-of-literacy-a-guide-for-families/