"Another big takeaway from decades of scientific research is that, while we use our eyes to read, the starting point for reading is sound. What a child must do to become a reader is to figure out how the words she hears and knows how to say connect to letters on the page. Writing is a code humans invented to represent speech sounds. Kids have to crack that code to become readers.”
From the article, Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out, by Emily Hanford
Explore the slides from a former K-3 ICN Phonics webinar. Many of the resources from the slides are linked below: