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There is a lot of buzz around teaching phonics and its efficiency nowadays. A lot of people find it as one of the crucial parts of learning a language, others consider it an outdated method. First, let’s understand what phonics is. Shortly put, phonics is a part of linguistics that helps children learn how to accurately spell separate letters and letter groups and form words or sentences. When phonics is missed out from a child’s curriculum, one can end up with issues of reading and even comprehending texts. Let’s get closer to the main reasons to include phonics as an essential part of learning a language.

As you might have already understood, without learning phonics it would be much more difficult for children to learn a language and understand how to correctly spell the words because they simply do not recognise individual letters. Not only will this help them efficiently read texts but also improve the fluency in reading. Pronouncing words correctly will give them confidence and help comprehend long texts easily.

It is important to teach children phonics from early ages. There are special books from children of all ages. If books for 3-4 mainly concentrate on listening skills such as hearing rhymes, phonics books for 5 years old gradually teach children how to pronounce letters and then word combinations. For example, The Bear Can Read, has specially curated bundles for children starting from 2 years, to start developing reading skills and then eventually become an independent reader as early as at the age of 8 or sooner.

This time our focus is on books for children at the age of 5. Parents sometimes have difficulties in choosing phonics books for their little ones. We have decided to share the most efficient ways to develop reading skills.