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Phonics approach / Whole word approach Two very different approaches to learning to read.
The phonics approach emphasizes the relationship between letters and sounds: for example, sounding the letters of the word cat as:
c-a-t.

The whole word (or look and say) approach teaches children to recognize individual words, not the sounds of the letters in words.