What are phonics? Here's a teaching resource that will answer the question. 20 Strategies to Build Phonics Skills offers a clear explanation of how sounds work together to make words. Parents, teachers and anyone working with a struggling reader will love the practical activities to teach or review basic phonics and advanced phonics. Find out how to teach phonics, how to help students practice phonics and how to use games and other strategies to review phonics skills. The phonics activities are appropriate for students from preschool through the upper grades, and will work with struggling readers or even adult literacy students.