Practical educators understand that the key in this stage of reading comes from teaching students to recognize that individual letters and some letters together create specific repeating sounds. Successful teachers must help students have a well-founded understanding of phonemes in order to form letter-sound correspondences and recognize spelling patterns. When teachers assist students in this way, they help students learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading. As previously mentioned, a starting point in teaching phonics comes from evaluating the student's prior knowledge. This allows teachers to create lessons and plans that offer diversity and give students a fair chance to understand