How a Good Phonics Program Should Teach Vowels (Short, Long, and the Tricky Middle)
Your child can rattle off every consonant but freezes on vowels. They read “bet” as “bat,” swap /a/ and /e/ at random, and the whole decoding engine stalls in the middle of every word. Vowels are where most reading programs quietly fall apart, and the fix is a specific teaching sequence any serious phonics program…