Understanding phonics will help your child learn to read and to look up words. We start with basic phonics - word families, where your child can acquire word decoding skills in small easy steps. Word Cards, brightly illustrated Word and Picture Cards, Consolidation Sentences and Combination Sentences offer many opportunities to learn and to practice. POPS Phonic Families are designed to help your child acquire word decoding skills by breaking the concept of blending sounds into small easy steps. Stage 1 covers the ’en’, ’an’, ’at’ , ’ig’ word families.