phonics programs
Sound-based literacy instruction
Phonics programs are structured curricula that teach reading by connecting letters and letter combinations to their sounds.
Students learn to decode words by sounding them out rather than memorizing whole words: The school adopted a new phonics program for first graders.
These programs vary in intensity and method, but all emphasize the relationship between written symbols and spoken language as the foundation of literacy.
- readingInterpreting written text
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- blendingCombining into uniformity
- soundingDepth measurement technique
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
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