Meaning & use
phonics
A method of teaching reading and pronunciation by linking sounds to the letters and letter groups that represent them.
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The teacher used phonics to help young children sound out unfamiliar words.
Phonics instruction taught her to blend individual letter sounds into whole words.
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Phonics is normally treated as a singular, uncountable noun even though it ends in -s.
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