Teaching Phonics At My Homeschool

Phonics is a core subject in the My Homeschool English curriculum for building literacy.

My Homeschool phonics and spelling is taught in a number of ways including spelling lists, dictation, copywork and reading strategies.

In the English language, there are about 44 sounds and 200 spelling patterns that have been identified for teaching direct instruction phonics. Phonics is a way to teach reading and spelling by helping decode unfamiliar words using their sounds (phonemes) and their spelling (graphemes). Phonics helps your child build their literacy and it’s a process that leads to sight-reading.

Phonics Program For Parents

At My Homeschool we provide parent support materials to help you teach phonics even if you didn’t learn it yourself. We include this as a part of our How to Homeschool 101 courses. This includes topics on:

1. Phonics and Spelling
2. How Children Learn to Spell
3. Types of Spelling Knowledge
4. Your Role as Parent
5. Teaching Your Child To Remember Spelling Words
6. Assessing Spelling

Foundation Phonics Program

In Kindergarten, we do not include a specific phonics-based reading resource. However, we do provide recommendations for some great phonics-based reading programs that are suitable for homeschoolers. You can read reviews of the particular programs we recommend to help you select the best option for your child. Some are free and others are less than $50.

To support your phonics we also suggest books for teaching beginning readers and offer phonics assessment sheets and resources to help with phonics-based spelling.