Time to Get Hooked on Phonics Again
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iStock/Thinkstock(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Remember Hooked on Phonics? Ads for this commercial system of reading education through phonetics were everywhere during the early 1990s until the company ran into trouble with the FTC, leading it to file for bankruptcy.
However, the basic concept of phonics to help kids read though sounding out words is making a comeback.
A University of Buffalo study says that phonics is more effective in teaching youngsters to read faster than the commonly taught technique of visually memorizing word patterns.
UB assistant professor of psychology Chris McNorgan contends that phonological information enables children to better identify individual words.
Furthermore, teaching them to be more sensitive to auditory information is key to improving reading performance, according to McNorgan.
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