Research further suggests that systematic, explicit Synthetic phonics (sound blending) to be fast, effective and efficient opposed to the other methods (Johnson & Watson, as cited in Konza, 2016). Consequently, Synthetic phonics was mandated to be taught in English and Welsh schools by the UK Government (The Rose Report, 2006). Such that prep students will start learning a phoneme per day with the use a variety of programs (Jolly phonics, Alpha blocks, ABC reading eggs), allowing many students to start reading. For example, students learn ‘M’ as ‘My letter name is M and my sound is ‘m’ – man/ monkey Synthetic phonics teaches the strategy of putting words together and breaking them, allowing them to be independent readers early on, and as students
