How and Why to Teach Phonics and Phonemic Awareness

I found an article written by Wiley Blevins that answers this blog post's question.

Understanding Phonics by Wiley Blevins

I share quite a bit about teaching phonics and phonemic awareness on this blog. I found Wiley Blevin's article to be easy to understand and based on the latest research I've been reading. I hope you find it informative. 

Here are some posts I labeled with phonics and phonemic awareness.

You may want to check out my Reading Resources page. This is where I share the most helpful resources I've written or found related to teaching reading. You may want to bookmark this page. I keep it updated.

I'm in the process of creating some resources for parents to teach phonics and phonemic awareness. These resources will be mostly in video format. Some videos will be for parents and teachers to watch to show ways to teach a child. Some videos will be learning videos for children. There will be companion written resources and recommended books to read to a child and recommended books for children to read themselves after watching videos.

I'll continue to make posts. I'll probably even give some sneak peeks into what I'm working on. I'll let you know when I have anything ready to sell. Thanks for reading this post. Subscribe with Feedburner to get all new posts sent via email.

If you'd like a way to monitor the reading levels once a child is reading, you may want to check out Total Reader. I'm happy to be able to share an in home way to test reading levels with you.

How and Why to Teach Phonics and Phonemic Awareness

Practice Short Vowel Sounds

Early readers need to learn short vowel sounds.

Here are links to some videos to help your beginning reader practice and learn short vowel sounds. 








Hop on Pop is a great book to read aloud to a child learning short vowel sounds. You can have your child try to read short vowel words. Check out this video I made showing teaching a child to read, mix up, and put back together a group of short vowel words from Hop on Pop.


The following pictures are additional groups of words you can teach in the same way as the video.

Here's a link to other posts I've made related to Hop on Pop.


Most kids like to have Hop on Pop read to them many times. They also like to read all or parts of Hop on Pop as soon as they can.





Here are some books your child will enjoy reading once he or she has learned to read words with short vowel sounds.

Practice Short Vowel Sounds