Audience: Adult learners + parents, teachers, and homeschoolers teaching reading
About this pillar
Phonics is the systematic relationship between English sounds and the letters that represent them. The patterns are 84% predictable when the rules are taught. For two generations, American reading instruction skipped this step. The data is overwhelming that the children who were not taught phonics explicitly read at lower rates than the children who were. Mississippi proved phonics works at scale. The Reading Helix teaches it the way the research says it should be taught.