As schooling progresses children are then taught simple, single letter sounds from the alphabet, before moving on to learning about digraphs, trigraphs and split digraphs or long vowel sounds. Phonics is often used in listening and writing lessons as well reading lessons. Often for example, children in schoo l s ar e taught and encouraged to spe l l phonetically before they spell correctly, as this shows an understanding of how words are made up of sounds, and that different letters make certain sounds. To make learning fun schools and teachers will often teach sounds through multi sensory activities such as singing or dancing or by playing games, both physical and online. All children learn differently so it is vital that teachers make learning as varied as possible. Practising sounds as they are taught in school at home is one of the main factors in children improving their reading. From my experience, children who are either read to at home, or read at home
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