PHONICS

                              

The english language has a complicated relation between its oral and written form. Therefore it has not been an easy task to achieve an agreement about the best way to teach how  to read and write english.

Phonics is a method that native english speakers use to teach children how to read and write. It is based on the sound of the letters, making the students aware of the existing relation between the phonemes and graphemes, instead of the whole language approach, where words had to be learnt by heart.            

Nowadays, phonics is gaining more followers, particularly synthetic phonics, which is the most popular method used in the UK and Australia.

                           

Synthetic phonics is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.

In contrast, Analytical Phonics, also known as the Whole Word approach, involves analysis of whole words to detect phonetic or orthographic (spelling) patterns, then splitting them into smaller parts to help with decoding