noun

• Denoting a method of teaching reading based on the visual recognition of words rather than by the association of sounds and letters.

  Compare with phonic

  as modifier ‘the “look-and-say” reading method’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The phonic method has reappeared for teaching reading and spelling in the early primary school, after some thirty years of official neglect in favour of word recognition (‘look-and-say’).’