Teach Your Child Phonemic Awareness

In recent years, the field of reading education has changed dramatically and many reading instructors have divided it between phonic instruction and whole language. Various reading programs that fall into one of the two camps have spent millions advertising the relative merits of both.
The simple truth of the matter is that the best reading instruction takes place using a combination of both strategies. And increasingly reading research has demonstrated that phonemic awareness, not simply phonics, is critically important to ensuring reading success?especially for students with learning disabilities.
However what makes this so confusing for many parents and caregivers is that the term ?phonemic awareness? is tossed around so often and in so many different ways View the rest of this article