Phonics is the relationship between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes). The goal of phonics instruction is to help children grasp the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and spoken sounds. Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them crack the code of reading. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters n, t,a, and s, they can start to build words like, “nat”, “tan”, “sat”, etc.