Phonics is a method of teaching reading that focuses on the relationship between letters and sounds. By learning the sounds that each letter makes, children can then blend those sounds together to read words.
Here are some other terms related to sounding out words:
* Decoding: The process of breaking down a word into its individual sounds and then blending those sounds together to read the word.
* Sounding out: The act of saying the individual sounds in a word.
* Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound in a language.
* Grapheme: The written representation of a phoneme.
So, when a child is sounding out a word, they are essentially using phonics to decode the word and figure out what it is.