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Synthetic phonics
Teaching reading by blending and segmenting the sounds of the letters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other phonics approaches, see Phonics.
Synthetic phonics, also known as blended phonics or inductive phonics,[1] is a method of teaching English reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.
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