Synthetic Phonics Essay

Synthetic phonics is a way of teaching reading. Children are taught to read letters by saying the sounds for them first, for example ‘aaa’ for (ant) or ‘iii’ for (it). The children can then start blending the sounds together to make a word. At nursery we start (like many other settings too) with the simple letters and we remember them by saying (satipn). We also have and disk that we sing along with and a visual aid of the letter and maybe an animal or toy to represent what letter we are singing about, this mostly helps the children remember the phonics more, as when they see the visual aid they may automatically say ‘a for ant’ or ‘s for snake’ for example. Once the children have learnt the sounds for the individual phonics they may then