She is learning what letters look like and that words are made of groups of letters. (childdevelopmentinfo.com)
Teachers try to give students phonetic awareness in class by teaching them common groups of letters in words — like dge — so they can easily recognize them. (dnainfo.com)
acronym A word made by combining some of the starting letter or groups of letters from a number of words. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)