1) Reading method 2) Sound teaching method 3) Spelling method 4) Teaching reading 
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing the English language by developing learners` phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them. The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to d....
• (n.) See Phonetics.
Phon'ics noun See Phonetics . 
Phonics is a form of instruction to cultivate the understanding and use of the alphabetic principle. It emphasizes the predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds in spoken language) and graphemes (the letters that represent those sounds in written language) and shows how this information can be used to read or decode words. See also: Ana...
[n] - teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
phonics 1. The science of sound in general; acoustics. 2. The science of spoken sounds; phonetics. 3. The correlations between sound and symbol in an alphabetic writing system; used specificlly with reference to a method of teaching reading by associating letters or groups of letters with particular sounds in which the sound values of those individ...
noun teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
teaching reading by associating letters with their sounds