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Your child can achieve reading success in elementary school with improved phonics skills.

Phonics is the relationship between letters of the written language and the sounds, or phonemes, of spoken language. A personalized reading program from Sylvan can improve your child's phonics skills, help him quickly recall familiar words and decode new words with ease.

Your child will master these elementary school phonics skills and more.

• Identify letters of the alphabet
• Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (i.e., block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (i.e., join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (i.e., car, bear, pier)
• Syllabication or the ability to break a word down into syllables
• Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (i.e., books, started, singing, gladly)
• Identify compound words