phonics

«phonics» in Mova's school dictionary: a way of learning to read by matching letters and groups… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (phonics — uncountable, used with a singular verb)

meaning for a pupil

1) Phonics is a way of learning to read by matching letters and groups of letters to the sounds they make. tree →

2) Phonics also means the lessons and books that teach this. tree →

sense in the lessons

In early school reading (especially UK, Australia and New Zealand), children learn phonics: «sh» says /sh/, «igh» says /eye/. They blend sounds to read words (c-a-t, cat) and segment words to spell them. The UK has a «phonics screening check» in Year 1. Phrases: «phonics lesson», «sound it out», «blend the sounds».

examples

• We have phonics every morning before break. tree →
• In phonics we learned that «ai» and «ay» make the same sound. tree →
• My little brother uses phonics to sound out new words. tree →
• Phonics helps you read words you have never seen before. tree →
• The teacher held up phonics cards with letters on them. tree →
• Not every word follows phonics rules, like «said» and «the». tree →

note

Ends in -s but is singular: «Phonics is fun», not «are». Words that do not follow the rules are often called «tricky words» or «sight words». Phonics is about sounds, not about the meaning of words.

In the corpora

• Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.
• That is a good phonics attempt, not a silly one.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «phonics» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.