Teaching Phonemic Awareness and Reading Competencies

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Teaching Phonemic Awareness and Reading Competencies
Every day more and more research is definitely exposing the significant benefits of phonics and phonemic awareness as a means to coach a child to read. The outcomes achieved are routinely higher than using the whole word teaching methods.

The whole word method is usually a method of "word memorization" and English does not comprise of shapes and figures.

Teaching phonemic awareness skills needs the child to memorize letters and the sounds they stand for.
With this method, even kids as younger as two yrs old can learn to read successfully