Do English Learners Need Phonics? You Bet!

When I created Whamphonics as an online screener, I too, wondered about the reasoning of English learners learning to sound out nonsense words.  My thoughts were that they needed to make meaning AND learn how to sound out words.  It took me time, as it took the reading community to come around to the idea that YES, our English learners need to learn the sound symbol correlation to the English language- nonsense or real words.  

Online phonics diagnostic @whamphonics.com
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