Verb-O-Phonics focuses on helping young children to read English fluently. Phonics is a method of training children to improve reading and writing skills of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, The basic principles of phonics were first presented by John Hart in 1570. Since the turn of the 20th century, phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the English-speaking world. The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or, in phonics terms, blending the sound-spelling patterns.
Verb-O-Phonics is developed based on the international recommendations given by UK
Literacy Strategy and American National Reading Panel viz.
The programme comprises of a colourful and visually appealing characters in visually rich readers which leads the child through a fun filled world of reading with the help of blending activity to develop strong reading skills. The programme consists of two levels viz. Basic level for beginners and Advanced Level for promoted students.
Verb-O-Phonics programme is designed to make the child an independent and fluent reader. Phonic skills are known to help children rapidly transform into independent confident readers, who can understand, spell and read accurately and correctly. Children learn sight words and hence develop their vocabulary base. Children will get familiarized with 44 phoneme sounds, blends, digraphs, diphthongs,special sounds,3,4 and 5 letter words.
