Associations to the word «Phonics»

Wiktionary

PHONICS, noun. The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
PHONICS, noun. A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
PHONICS, noun. Phonetics.

Dictionary definition

PHONICS, noun. Teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky