{"query": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "count": 9, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bf1b1d4a5b77", "title": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "English is a cipher with a catch: 26 letters carry ~44 phonemes (24 consonant + 20 vowel\nsounds, sealed 24+20=44) spelled ~250 ways, ~4.7 bits per letter (log2 26). The whole difficulty\nis the vowels ", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance assay — 2026-07-09", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_word_phonic", "title": "phonic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "phonic: (adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading · (adjective) relating to speech · (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds — syn: phonetic", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "WordNet 3.0, Princeton University (WordNet License)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_word_phonics", "title": "phonics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "phonics: (noun) teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "WordNet 3.0, Princeton University (WordNet License)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_51cb9e90f87e", "title": "Greek and Latin roots — English science asse ↔ Phonics — the code beneath reading", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "This is decoding at the MEANING layer, the twin of phonics at the sound layer  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance miner — 2026-07-11", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_book_18119", "title": "How to Teach Phonics — Lida Myrtle Williams", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How to Teach Phonics, by Lida Myrtle Williams. Subjects: English language -- Phonetics -- Study and teaching; Reading -- Phonetic method. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Project Gutenberg (public domain)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_pron_phonic", "title": "phonic", "shelf": "pronunciation", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "phonic: pronounced (ARPABET) F AA1 N IH0 K. From the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — the standard machine-readable pronunciations of North American English.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict) — BSD-2-Clause, Carnegie Mellon", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_pron_phonics", "title": "phonics", "shelf": "pronunciation", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "phonics: pronounced (ARPABET) F AA1 N IH0 K S. From the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — the standard machine-readable pronunciations of North American English.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict) — BSD-2-Clause, Carnegie Mellon", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_8503025e7797", "title": "Phonics decodes sound; morphology decodes meaning", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Reading is both: the sound layer (phonics) and the meaning-part layer (morphology).", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance assay — 2026-07-09", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b8242751064c", "title": "Greek and Latin roots — English science assembled from parts", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Most academic and scientific English is TRANSPARENT once you know the parts: photo (light)\n+ graph (writing) = photograph; tele (far) + phone (sound) = telephone; tele + graph = telegraph;\nmicro + sco", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance assay — 2026-07-09", "generated": false}]}