What's the Difference Between Synthetic and Analytic Phonics

Synthetic phonics is a more accelerated form of phonics. … With analytic phonics, children are taught to recognize whole words by sight, and later to break down the word into the smaller units of sound. Letter sounds are taught after reading has begun.

What is a synthetic approach to phonics?

Synthetic phonics instruction focuses on teaching each individual letter sound and having kids try to sound each letter or letter combination (like th, sh) one at a time and then try to blend those back into word pronunciations.

Is Jolly phonics synthetic or analytic?

Jolly Phonics is a comprehensive programme, based on the proven, fun and muliti-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet.