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Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.

A part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.

Words that are assigned to the same word part of speech generally display similar behavior in terms of syntax—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes in terms of morphology, in that they undergo inflection for similar properties.

Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article or determiner.

A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).

In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.

In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice.

A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object.

Verbs have tenses: present, to indicate that an action is being carried out; past, to indicate that an action has been done; future, to indicate that an action will be done.

A vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.

A vocabulary, usually developed with age, serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge.

Acquiring an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest challenges in learning a second language.

Reading comprehension is the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning.

Although this definition may seem simple, it is not necessarily simple to teach, learn or practice (K12 Publishing, LLC, 2015) An individual's ability to comprehend text is influenced by their traits and skills, one of which is the ability to make inferences.

If word recognition is difficult, students use too much of their processing capacity to read individual words, which interferes with their ability to comprehend what is read.

There are a number of approaches to improve reading comprehension, including improving one's vocabulary and reading strategies.

According to a by Madhumathi Pasupathi and Arijit Ghosh, the students with higher level of reading proficiency frequently used reading strategies to comprehend academic texts.