Move over, teaching context clues
, Real Books. Move over Phonics. The new path is Synthetic Phonics! But what does the term really mean?
Within each word are individual sounds called phonemes. For instance, the word plough has 6 letters, 3 phonemes and 1 syllable.
English has 43 phonemes in all, but is unusual in having over a thousand different letter combinations that can represent them.
Literacy education is split between two main approaches; Real Books and Phonics.