DK Super Phonics a Parent’s Guide to Phonics

Help your child take their first steps into the world of phonics and reading with this parent’s and caregiver’s guide to reading support.

A Parents Guide to Phonics is for parents and caregivers who want to learn how to help their child with reading and spelling. It explains how written language is put together, what phonics is, and how reading and spelling are taught using a structured approach.

The book is written using accessible, jargon-free language that is easy to follow and understand. It also includes a section on additional educational needs and what adaptations schools might make to enable pupils with additional needs to access phonics teaching.

This parent guide to teaching phonics offers:

- An easy-to-understand guide to teaching phonics, with jargon-free language that is easy to follow.
- An opportunity to boost home learning for parents and caregivers who want to support their children with phonics at home.
- A Science of Reading approach, using a structured approach to teaching and understanding phonics.

Written for parents and caregivers and those new to supporting children learning to read, A Parent’s Guide to Phonics explains how written language is put together, what phonics is and how reading and spelling are taught using a structured approach.

What is phonics?

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read by understanding the sounds that individual letters make and blending them to make a word. Children can learn to read using this skill to decode new words. Phonic Books specialzes in decodable, systematic books supporting this structured literacy instruction.

Ann Sullivan has over 30 years’ experience in mainstream and specialist education. Based in the UK, her career includes roles as a KS1 and KS2 class teacher, SEN literacy teacher, school-based Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO), an advisory teacher for pupils with special educational needs and a Specialist Leader in Education (SLE).

Tre Hadrick, also known as Mr Lit., is an educator, certified counselor, and community leader in Norristown, PA. For more than fifteen years, he has worked to advance the lives of young children, teens, and their families. He currently serves as a school counselor at Central MontcoTechnical High School and an adjunct professor at Villanova University.