A reading instruction method that teaches children to sound out words, which was replaced by Whole Language in US schools from the 1980s to early 2000s.
"From the 1980s to the early 2000s, US schools replaced phonics with Whole Language, where kids were told to guess words based on vibes instead of sounding them out."
"A full course of phonics builds a framework for picking up even the most pretentious SAT words with the ease they pick up curses in a fortnight match. This framework of sounding and visualizing words rather than guessing them can be scaled up to intuitive grasps of sentences, or even paragraph struc"