Método fônico para trabalhar o ensino da habilidade de leitura

This article aims to present, among the teaching-learning methods of reading skills, the phonics method as an effective and advantageous approach. To better unfold the theme, the specific objectives are: to present what literacy is and its importance in the development of reading skills; to describe what the phonics method is in comparison to the whole language method; to present the importance of the phonics method in teaching reading skills. The research method is a Literature Review, based on data collected from other authors who have already published and are present in the literature, such as Capovilla and Capovilla (2007); Vale (2021); Oliveira (2021); among others. The information gathered in this study indicates that literacy is characterized by its methods, and its quality depends directly on them. The phonics method has appeared in concrete studies in the literature as one of the most effective for the development of reading skills, although in Brazil it is not the predominant method of literacy in schools. Even with some policies essentially directed toward the use of the phonics method, such as the PNA, other policies remain behind in this regard and outdated concerning the advantages that the method has over others; the PCNs, for example, are one of these policies that need to be revised and adapted to the needs of the current educational context in Brazil.