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  2. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  3. Voiced labiodental approximant - Wikipedia

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    цврчак / cvrčak [t͡sʋř̩ːt͡ʃak] 'cricket' /v/ is a phonetic fricative, although it has less frication than /f/. However, it does not interact with unvoiced consonants in clusters as a fricative would, and so is considered to be phonologically a sonorant (approximant). [18] [19] Shona: vanhu [ʋan̤u] 'people' Contrasts with /v/ and ...

  4. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Teaching the reading and writing of words in order of increasing irregularity, in other words teaching words which use typical letter-sounds first (e.g. fan and ape), and teaching words with more unusual letter-sounds later (e.g. phone and eight). Synthetic phonics programmes do not have the following characteristics:

  5. Phonological awareness - Wikipedia

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    While exposure to different sound patterns in songs and rhymes is a start towards developing phonological awareness, exposure in itself is not enough, because the traditional actions that go along with songs and nursery rhymes typically focus on helping students to understand the meanings of words, not attend to the sounds.

  6. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Also called the whole-word method, a method to teach reading to children, usually in their first language; has been adapted for second-language reading; words are taught in association with visuals or objects; students must always say the word so the teacher can monitor and correct pronunciation.

  7. Voiced labiodental fricative - Wikipedia

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    The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is v , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v. The sound is similar to voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in that it is familiar to most European speakers [citation needed] but is a fairly uncommon sound cross-linguistically, occurring in approximately 21.1% of languages. [1]

  8. Analytic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Analytic phonics (sometimes referred to as analytical phonics [1] or implicit phonics [2]) refers to a very common approach to the teaching of reading that starts at the word level, not at the sound level. It does not teach the blending of sounds together as is done in synthetic phonics. One method is to have students identify a common sound in ...

  9. Voiced bilabial fricative - Wikipedia

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    The bilabial fricative is diachronically unstable (likely to be considerably varied between dialects of a language that makes use of it) and is likely to shift to [v]. [7] The sound is not the primary realization of any sound in English dialects except for Chicano English, but it can be produced by approximating the normal English [v] between ...