Comprehensive-Reading - Learning Phonics

Learning Phonics

In our fast paced days, it is so hard some times to get our children to sit still long enough to learn. In the eighties and nineties "Hooked on Phonics" was very popular and helped many children with learning phonics. It was an easy to use program that parents and children both liked. While it served its' purpose, it has slowly become a thing of the past. Children are increasingly responding to the newer on-line, interactive resources such as the lessons and games to help with learning phonics that can be found within the Time4Learning program.

With Time4Learning the old problem of getting your child interested in learning is taken care of and children actually enjoy learning phonics and other studies. Since every child learns at a different pace and some methods work better than others, Time4Learning offers a variety of lessons to meet these needs and also let your child work at their own pace. Parents can check the progress on all lessons also, so you always know what your child is doing.

The best home school curriculum is one with diversity. This helps keep your child's attention and allows for different methods of teaching. Children need this mix and match to help them grow and keep them wanting to do more. You can look at a lot of phonic resource sites before coming up with one that offers the diversity that is needed. The web is full of phonic resource sites, most that will offer either workbook style lessons to teach phonics, or strictly computer based programs to teach phonics. Time4Learning combines all the phonic resource information in a online, interactive educational material that offers each child their own learning path. There are online lessons, phonic games, printable worksheets, and much more.

Phonic games are another way to teach phonics and keep your child's attention. We recommend a web site called Learning Games For Kids. Phonic Games are a great way to build on the skills needed to learn phonics. These phonic games are fun, interactive, and educational. "Children will, themselves work to develop their focus and skills with these learning games."

The National Institute of Literacy states, "The goal of phonics instruction is to help children learn and use the alphabetic principle--the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. Knowing these relationships will help children recognize familiar words accurately and automatically, and "decode" new words."

The National Institute of Literacy goes on further to state "Systematic (direct teaching of a set of letter-sound relationships in a clearly defined sequence) and explicit phonics instruction is more effective than non-systematic or no phonics instruction.

Ultimately, picking a phonics curriculum is can be a time consuming and tedious job. You must pick one that severs all your needs, keeps your child's interests and helps them with learning phonics. We recommend Time4Learning.