Phonics Used In War Of Words By Trish Crawford

English can be one of the most difficult languages to learn. How does one even learn how to speak English? In the article “War of Words,” by Trish Crawford she wrote about a couple of methods to learn English words, such as phonics and whole language. Phonics is one of the oldest ways in teaching someone new words, and was first introduced into the school system in the early nineteen hundreds. Phonics is where one uses sound and symbol relationships to figure out the word parts, and then puts them together to form words. One then repeats this process over and over till the word is memorized. Phonics is still very popular and used all around the United States of America to teach students the English language. The focus is in the word sounds …show more content…
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