:: Fancy Fun Phonics ::

Welcome to the world of phonics.

You may ask, why phonics? Is it not enough to simply teach our kids the letters of alphabet and then leave them for learning the word formation by byhearting the spellings?

In fact, with certain exceptions, this has been a practice for a very long time that children were supposed to by heart the spellings for technical, non- technical – general words. But teaching phonics prepares our children for language learning and this fact alone makes it worth the effort.

What exactly is phonics teaching ?

Phonics teaching involves, teaching children the relationship between the written letters of the alphabet (the graphemes) and the individual sound of spoken language (the phonemes).

The phonemes are the smallest part of spoken language that combines to make words. They are the speech sounds, not the actual letters in a particular word. eg the word spoon has five letters but only three phonemes sp oo n

The English alphabet has 26 letters but around 43 sounds. This is similar to almost all the languages spoken in India, where a combination of a consonant sound (‘Vyanjan’ or ‘Mulakshar’) and a vowel (a sound from ‘Barakhadi’) make a meaningful word.

Aims of phonics teaching

Teaching children how to convert single sounds, produced by single letters of the combination of consonants and vowels, or more than one consonants or more than one vowels to make those sounds into recognizable words.

Teaching them to analyze letter sound relationship in a familiar word.
Teaching children to break the words down into phonemes and to make words by writing letters for phonemes.