How to Use phonics in a Sentence

phonics

noun

• The problem isn't that JCPS students aren't being taught phonics.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2022
• Posters for younger students cover simple concepts, such as the parts of speech or phonics.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• The buildup of [evidence for] why phonics would be the right way to teach reading is very interesting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• Several states are in the process of retraining teachers in the more phonics-heavy methods.
  — Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• Testing at the school revealed that only 42 percent of students were at their grade level in terms of phonics.
  — Steve Smith, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Critics say that time spent on phonics is too brisk and not systematic.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2022
• The program promised to provide tutors to work with students in person, which the Carsons believed would help Solomon in subjects like phonics and math.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• Dozens of Texas city names defy conventional English phonics and trip the tongue of tourists and native Texans alike.
  — J.m. Scott, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
• While Young led the small group of rising first graders through more practice with phonics, four other students were sitting at desks, playing a math game on their iPads.
  — NBC News, 31 July 2021
• And staff are working around the clock to reteach foundational skills -- such as first-grade phonics -- that some students lost during the pandemic.
  — al, 10 Nov. 2021
• The group settled on an approach that included whole language and phonics, a victory for Joseph.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Why English learners need more than phonics to master reading.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021
• That's anathema to educators who are all-in on phonics.
  — Lelah Byron and Aimee Galaszewski, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• Fyllis Hockman of Gaithersburg is named because of her older brother’s fun with phonics.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
• Woll now reviews kindergarten-level phonics with her second graders.
  — al, 10 Nov. 2021
• The state Legislature later passed a bill that mandated the use of phonics in reading instruction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The small group of first-graders are part of Robinson Elementary’s second summer learning camp, and White, a pre-K teacher, signed up to spend her break helping the students brush up on their phonics skills.
  — al, 16 June 2022
• Two years ago, Grago’s students were in third grade and should have mastered phonics and started reading for comprehension.
  — Joe Hong, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2022
• Similarly, the school places an early focus on phonics.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2022
• Advanced phonics training and materials for every kindergarten and first grade teacher in the district.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021
• The curriculums are reliant on using phonics both in texts and group discussions to improve reading fluency.
  — Lelah Byron and Aimee Galaszewski, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• But because the center focuses on early reading skills, like phonics, Jackson Payton said, day care may have been a better choice than online kindergarten.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• But because the center focuses on early reading skills, like phonics, Ms. Jackson Payton said, day care may have been a better choice than online kindergarten.
  — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• Tutoring can work for math and foundational reading skills like phonics, which even many older students struggle with.
  — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Good phonics practice will not close another gap in reading instruction.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2021
• Green said interventions can include phonics lessons in which teachers explain, for example, how two letters in a word can produce two separate sounds.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 28 June 2022
• Is the charter using a program that teaches phonics and other foundational reading skills in a systematic way?
  — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• According to Fowler, the supplementary phonics program worked—until the district directed teachers to stop using it.
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• The problem, critics say, is the method isn't well-balanced, with important foundational reading skills like phonemic awareness and phonics often getting short shrift.
  — Mandy McLaren, courier-journal.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• Under the previous curriculum, students often never even learned to sound out words, because teachers hadn’t been trained in the systematic phonics instruction that many kids need.
  — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024