**What phonics materials do you need to teach phonics**

When you start to teach phonics all you really need is a good phonics chart and possible some word lists. These phonic materials, charts and word lists, help you to get the pronunciation of the phonic sounds and

once you have mastered that you can start reading books.

The books I like are the scholastic phonics books.

They are a good size and the stories are very easy for children to understand and they use a lot of repetition.

There are a number of different ways to teach your child to read and that depends on you and your time. If you like the one to one approach then I recommend the Montessori way of teaching reading. With this method you decide what to teach and you guide your child through the lessons.

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The phonics materials you need for the Montessori way are very simple as you just need sandpaper letters and you make up the words. This is a very good approach if you are helping your child with homework. You just use the words from the schoolbook. For homeschooling I combined the Montessori way with the scholastic phonics books and this was a very effective combination.

If your time is limited you can use phonics reading software that you download onto your computer. You will have to show your child how to use the software, then after a week or so you can leave them to study by themselves. If your children do self-study you have to test them regularly to see if they are learning.

This Montessori program is the one I used and I found it to be very effective. For more information about other phonics programs see our teach reading page

To have a chat to other parents and to find out more about learning to read go to our forum.

Thank you for your time

Peter Legrove