This paper investigates the challenges primary school teachers face in teaching phonics. Phonics Instruction according to the Open University Reading Development Course Team (1977, p.170) is “any method of teaching which draws attention to the relationship between phonemes and graphemes”. The idea of phonemes brings to mind the teaching of sounds while the concept of graphemes deals with the writing system. Thus, every phonics instruction guides learners toward mastering reading and writing. Qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used to understand lower primary school teachers’ challenges in teaching Phonics. Also, research observation and questionnaires were used as instruments to collect data through a research survey. Three lower primary school teachers from Government Primary School Atuakum Bamenda were selected respondents. The findings reveal that teaching Phonics to early elementary pupils has been very challenging for lower primary school teachers as they face many difficulties with the appropriate method. The results also reveal that only 66.6% of teachers know and understand Phonics, which prompts us to deeply research and understand the origin of their challenges in teaching phonics.