First Grade Phonics

Phonics is one of the building blocks of reading. How important is it? Is there a difference between phonetics and phonics? Is it important that lower grade students ‘get it’ in the lower grades or do we want to be teaching phonetics in 7th grade as well?

“First Grade Phonics” was presented by Kayla Hartman at Western Fellowship Teachers’ Institute in August of 2018 at Lighthouse Mennonite School in Halsey, Oregon.