Phonics is recommended as the first strategies that children should be taught in helping them learn to read and write. Kids Castle Nursery near Downtown teaches phonics to children to be able to listen carefully and identify the individual sounds that make up each word. It helps children to learn to read and spell words.
Phonics reading helps children to recognize and associate sounds of the letters of the alphabet in the word they read. This helps them to improve their reading skills and efficiency. If staying in Downtown, visit Kids Castle Nursery to experience how the children are taught a phonics ‘code’. This code helps children work out how to read 95% of the English language. If as a parent you didn't learn to read using phonics it can seem very complicated, but once the concept is understood, children are able to make remarkably quick progress in their reading.
How Kids Castle teach Phonics?
Children start to learn to read as soon as they start pre-k or EYFS FS1. Differentiating between different sounds in the first lesson in phonics taught in Kids Castle Nursery. Children are made to listen to sounds that they can hear, such as the sounds that animals make, or sounds they hear when they go outside. As classes progresses children are then taught simple, single letter sounds from the alphabet, before moving on to learning about digraphs, trigraphs and split digraphs.
Phonics is often used in listening and writing lessons as well as reading lessons. Often for example, children are taught and encouraged to spell phonetically before they spell correctly, as this shows an understanding of how words are made up of sounds, and that different letters make certain sounds.
To make learning fun, teachers at Kids Castle Nursery will often teach sounds through multi sensory activities such as singing or dancing or by playing games. All children learn differently so it is important that teachers make learning as varied as possible.