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whole-word method

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Noun1.whole-word method - teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words
teaching reading - teaching beginners to read


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The most destructive thing they did was reform the teaching of reading by throwing out the true and tried phonics method and imposing a whole-word method that would teach children to read our alphabetic English as if it were a pictographic language like Chinese, which would ultimately lead to the general decline of literacy in our country.
 
 
 
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