Why is phonics important?

Why is phonics important?

• ​​​Research findings show that those students who have not developed automaticity by the beginning of second grade are at risk for reading failure (Berninger et al., 2003, Berninger et al., 2006)
• The National Reading Panel (2000) conducted a meta-analysis to review and evaluate research on the effectiveness of various approaches for teaching children to read. Their findings showed that students who received systematic and explicit phonics instruction were better readers at the end of instruction than students who received nonsystematic or no phonics instruction (Ehri, 2006; Armbruster, Lehr, and Osborn, 2001)

​Phonics. (2017). Retrieved July 15, 2017, from https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5-components-of-reading/phonics