Phonics, Books, Books for Kids, Reading to Children

My mother was a remedial reading specialist for many years. I grew up helping her prepare activities for her classrooms. She always taught to many learning modalities and when teaching reading, she celebrated phonics.

As I work in classrooms today and help children learn to read through interactive games on the computer or in the books I write, I always remember my mother and her commitment to teaching phonics. When I asked her what a word was, her consitent reply was always, "Sound it out." To this day, I consider phonics the number one way to teach children to read.

Bonnie Worthington
Author, Engine Ed's Colorful Train