Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

synthetic phonics

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: syn-thet-ic -phon-ics
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

System of teaching children to read by synthesising sounds from letters.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Many schools that have moved to synthetic phonics have noted dramatic improvements to the literacy of pupils taught by this method."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does synthetic phonics mean?: System of teaching children to read by synthesising sounds from letters.

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