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Mesmer, Heidi Anne E.; Griffith, Priscilla L. – Reading Teacher, 2005
The authors define phonics as a system for encoding speech sounds into written symbols and for teaching learners to use the relationship between letters and sounds to recognize words. The origin of the term "explicit, systematic phonics" is traced historically through studies and reviews of phonics instruction and policy documents. Results from a…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Word Recognition, Teacher Surveys