Abstract of

Everything You Wanted to Know About Phonics (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Steven A. Stahl

Ann M. Duffy-Hester

Katherine Anne Dougherty Stahl

The authors review basic principles underlying word learning and phonics instruction. These principles are applicable to many primary-grade classrooms. They then discuss approaches to teaching phonics. Finally, they draw some tentative conclusions on how an integrated language arts program that includes phonics might look in a first-grade classroom.

Abstract from Stahl, S.A., Duffy-Hester, A.M., & Stahl, K. (1998). Everything You Wanted to Know About Phonics (But Were Afraid to Ask). Reading Research Quarterly, 33(3), 338–355. doi: 10.1598/RRQ.33.3.5