Phonics

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Phonics is a method for teaching people how to read and write an alphabetic language (such as English, Arabic or Russian). It is done by demonstrating the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters or groups of letters (graphemes) or syllables of the written language. In English, this is also known as the alphabetic principle or the Alphabetic code.[

Phonics is taught using a variety of approaches, for example:

a) learning individual sounds and their corresponding letters (e.g. the word cat has three letters and three sounds c - a - t, (in IPA: /k/, /æ/, /t/), whereas the word flower has six letters but four sounds: f - l - ow - er, (IPA /f/, /l/, /aʊ/, /ər/),

b) learning the sounds of letters or groups of letters, at the word level, such as similar sounds (e.g., cat, can, call), or rimes (e.g., hat, mat and sat have the same rime, "at"), or consonant blends (also consonant clusters in linguistics) (e.g. bl as in black and st as in last).

Folakemi also teaches:

Government, Literacy & Numeracy, Handwriting Improvement, Basic Mathematics, Agricultural Science, English Language

Levels taught: Pre-Primary, Lower Primary and Upper Primary

Teaching Curriculum: Nigerian, British

Lessons hold at your home

When you book lessons, Folakemi will usually travel anywhere at most 5km (~ 30mins drive ) from Iponri to deliver lessons.