Students are told for example that the letter s stands for the s sound. Thus instruction needs to filter categorize and prioritize information for them.
A Study Of Phonics Instruction Teaching Phonics Dance To At Risk
Research has found that students that struggle with reading have working memory issuesthus the ability to filter categorize and prioritize information is very difficult for struggling students. Phonics is a method of instruction that teaches students correspondences between graphemes in written language and phonemes in spoken language and how to use these correspondences to read and spell words.