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/fˈɑnɪks/ Listen

noun

Phonics 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 method and sentence method.

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Etymology of 'Phonics'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Phonics" Quotes from Famous Books

... avoid letters or symbols which represent two sounds, an initial and a vanish; and to use simple vowel elements instead. The combinations of different elements represented by certain letters and diphthongs may easily be explained when they appear in the words of a song, if, indeed, the study of phonics has not already ...

— The Child-Voice in Singing • Francis E. Howard

... the leisurely Augustine of Cockburn drank from a tortoise-shell wassail cup to the health of an apotheosized recusant, who was his supererogatory patron, and an assistant recognizance in the immobile nomenclature of interstitial molecular phonics. The contents of the vase proving soporific, a stolid plebeian took from its cerements a heraldic violoncello, and, assisted by a plethoric diocesan from Pall Mall, who performed on a sonorous piano-forte, ...

— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway