Reading
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Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of the symbols of a written language, by means of sight or touch. The ability to read is called literacy.
A reading muse
Volunteer reads to a girl at the Casa Hogar de las Niñas in Mexico City.
Senior reading a newspaper in Nepal
Researchers have concluded that approximately 95% of students can be taught to read by the end of the first or second year of school, yet in many countries 20% or more do not meet that expectation.
Phonics
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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, and the letters or groups of letters or syllab
Reading
…educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), punctuation, alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Other types of reading and writing, such as pictograms (e.g., a hazard symbol…
Students learning phonics through a textbook.
McGuffey's Primer 1836
Reading time at a primary school in rural Lao PDR
A Course of Study in Phonics, San Francisco, US, 1912