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Phonics Teacher

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Phonics Teachers specialise in teaching young children (ages 3–8) the systematic relationship between letters and sounds so they can decode written English and achieve reading fluency. In India this role has grown significantly as preschool chains (EuroKids, Kidzee, Bachpan, Mother's Pride) and CBSE/ICSE English-medium primary schools have adopted structured phonics programs — Jolly Phonics, Letters and Sounds, Reading Eggs, and Phonics International — in response to low foundational-literacy scores identified by the ASER survey and the NIPUN Bharat mission (2021). Unlike a general preschool or primary teacher who covers all subjects, a Phonics Teacher owns the full arc of early reading: phonemic awareness (manipulating spoken sounds), phonics decoding (letter-sound correspondence), blending and segmenting, sight-word recognition, and oral reading fluency. They work in preschool language classrooms, primary English departments, learning-support or remediation centres, and as reading interventionists for children with dyslexia or delayed literacy. The role requires a deep grasp of the science of reading — particularly systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) — and the ability to differentiate instruction across a 3-8 year age band.