Phonics is systematic and explicit instruction designed to teach children the letter-sound correspondences and blending necessary for development of proficient skills in reading.

While development of the skills in phonemic awareness addressed by Orson’s Farm is essential for helping children learn to read, research has shown it is not sufficient for all children. Thus, these children need to be engaged in phonics instruction that systematically identifies the sound-spelling correspondences used during reading. The goal of such instruction is the automatic blending of the phonemes resulting in rapid and accurate identification of words necessary for proficient reading.

The skills practiced while playing Fishing with Phonics can be used to reinforce ongoing classroom instruction directed at identifying sound-symbol correspondences and automatic phoneme blending. Giving children who are engaged in phonics instruction an opportunity to play the games provides educators a valuable standards-based activity to reinforce concepts in an entertaining format. As children complete the Fishing with Phonics games they will earn a score that will motivate them to play again and again to try to get a better score. This is just the type of repetition beginning readers need attain word recognition skills.

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