phonics
pronunciation
How to pronounce phonics in British English:
UK [ˈfɒnɪks]
How to pronounce phonics in American English:
US [ˈfɑnɪks]
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- Noun:
- teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
Word Origin
- phonics (n.)
- 1680s, "science of sound," from Greek phone "sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)) + -ics. As a method of teaching reading it is first attested 1908, though the system dates from 1844.
Example
- 1. Phonics is a code that unlocks word construction .
- 2. Reader rabbit learn to read with phonics .
- 3. After the sound combination and before reading : the practice after phonics .
- 4. Influenced by such findings , the bush administration is now promoting the inclusion of phonics in reading programs nationwide .
- 5. In a brief period as shadow education spokesman , his enthusiasm was not big-bang structural reforms but micro-initiatives like the teaching of phonics to improve literacy .