Phonics

Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing to beginners. To use phonics is to teach the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters (graphemes) or groups of letters or syllables of the written language. Phonics is also known as the alphabetic principle or the alphabetic code.

It can be used with any writing system that is alphabetic, such as that of English, Russian, and most other languages.
Phonics is also sometimes used as part of the process of teaching people from China to read and write Chinese characters, which are not alphabetic, using pinyin, which is alphabetic.

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