Phonics For the Reading Teacher Author:Anna D. Cordts With the upsurge of interest in the teaching of reading in the nation's schools, "phonetic" instruction has come into prominence. After having so long been held in ill-repute, phonics has regained respectability. — Whatever brand of phonics is used or whatever role phonics is playing in a given school system, whether as THE method of beginning re... more »ading or as part of the total reading program, teachers by their own admission find their knowledge of phonics inadequate to give them confidence and joy in their teaching. .....
As teachers become more fully aware of the value of effective instruction in phonics, the author believes they will find new confidence, hence greater joy, in teaching reading, and through more meaningful teaching they will heighten the pleasure that children find in one of the most rewarding experiences of childhood-the achievement of independence in reading.« less