Words with 'oo' - Cookery Nook's crooked cookery book In 'Fun with Phonics' Chef takes us through his cookery book.

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been ...

The phonics approach teaches children to decode words by sounds, rather than recognising whole words. The emphasis in early years teaching is on synthetic phonics, in which words are broken up ...

Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.