TEACHING READING

I. (noun)

Meaning:

Teaching beginners to read

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("teaching reading" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teaching reading"):

phonics (teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values)

whole-word method (teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words)