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phonics
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After years of concentrating on literature, California public schools are re- emphasizing phonics as a key method for learning to read. ▪ Currently, phonics advocates are painting whole word theory advocates as products of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness —the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes —in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phonics \Phon"ics\, n. same as Phonetics . a method of teaching reading and spelling to beginning students, emphasizing the sound values of individual letters and syllables, and the relationship between pronunciation and spelling. Contrasted to whole language ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "science of sound," from Greek phone "sound" (see fame (n.)) + -ics . As a method of teaching reading it is first attested 1908, though the system dates from 1844.
Usage examples of phonics.
Athena was already a proficient reader at the age of four, and she often helped me to teach phonics to her sisters.
To find why the jar said these things, I studied phonics, statistics -- at first it was a hobby.
How can I tell them that while I was selling them phonics, one was being executed?
He dumped the contentsonto the carpet beside the desk and moaned out loud as his reading, math, spelling, and phonics books fell out.
We always ended with one page of this now becit was composed of the sight words Luke could remember so well and was an antidote for the difficult phonics and word attack skills.
The slightest variation of a sound was blaringly apparent to Bobby, so that phonics and word attack skills were a snap for him.
Low scorer must enroll in Hooked on Phonics and is prohibited from running for any other elective office for at least six years.