phonics
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- Overview
- History
- Phonemic awareness
- The alphabetic principle (also: The alphabetic code)
- Alternative spellings of the sounds
- Vowel and consonant phonics patterns
- Vowel phonics patterns
- Consonant phonics patterns
- Effectiveness of programs and evidence-based education
- Teaching reading with phonics
- Combining phonics with other literacy instruction
- Sight words and sight vocabulary
- Systematic phonics
- Synthetic phonics
- Analytic phonics and analogy phonics
- Structured literacy
- Embedded phonics with mini-lessons
- Phonics through spelling
- Reading and spelling (writing)
- Using embedded pictures, and mnemonic alphabet cards when teaching phonics
- Introducing the Letters - Faster vs. slower
- The Reading Wars – phonics vs. whole language
- Simple view of reading
- Practices by country or region
- Australia
- Canada
- Finland
- France
- Hungary
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of Ireland
- Russia
- Singapore
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- England
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- United States
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Students learning phonics through a textbook.
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing to beginners. To use phonics is to teach the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters (graphemes) or groups of letters or syllables of the written language. Phonics is also known as the alphabetic principle or the alphabetic code. It can be used with any writing system that is alphabetic, such as that of English, Russian, and most other languages. Phonics is also sometimes used as part of the process of teaching people from China (and other foreign students) to read and write Chinese characters, which are not alphabetic, using pinyin, which is alphabetic.