<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Synthetic phonics (UK) or blended phonics (US), also known as inductive phonics, is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words . This article relates to the English language only . </P> <P> Synthetic phonics teaches the phonemes (sounds) associated with the graphemes (letters) at the rate of about six sounds per week . The sounds are taught in isolation then blended together (i.e. synthesised), all - through - the - word . For example, children might be taught a short vowel sound (e.g. / a /) in addition to some consonant sounds (e.g. / s /, / t /, / p /). Then the children are taught words with these sounds (e.g. sat, pat, tap, at). They are taught to pronounce each phoneme in a word, then to blend the phonemes together to form the word (e.g. / s / - / a / - / t /; "sat"). Sounds are taught in all positions of the words, but the emphasis is on all - through - the - word segmenting and blending from week one . It does not teach whole words as shapes (initial sight vocabulary) prior to learning the alphabetic code . </P>

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