Welcome
Since 1997 LEM Phonics has enjoyed excellent success as a superior method of teaching literacy to early primary children.
Through phonograms, sounds and the rules that govern the relationships between them, LEM Phonics makes sense of the English language. Rather than memorising lists of words by sight (which is effectively reducing the alphabetic language of English to a pictorial language), students are taught how to break a word into its component parts and analyse them. This analysis helps them to discover either what sounds the letters make (reading), or what letters they can use to represent those sounds on paper (spelling) — all before they have finished their first year of school!
Educators all across the planet are recognising (again) that phonics is the only method of teaching English that is consistent with the brain’s pattern of learning. LEM Phonics is Australia’s own ‘home grown’ synthetic phonics program, created in Australia, especially for the Australian accent, to suit Australian classrooms. I believe Australia can climb aboard this new wave of phonics instruction through LEM Phonics, making future generations of children Literate for Life.
John Garrard, LEM Phonics Coordinator
