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Category: Reading Education
Spellings of the English language
an introduction to graphemes The English language has over forty sounds but only twenty-six letters. Because there are fewer letters than sounds, many sounds, such as the /ch/ in chip, are represented by a letter pair or letter group. Learning to read English would be difficult enough if this were the only quirk of the…
A Brief History of Reading Education
Growing up in the 1970s, I remember visiting my grandparents and looking through my dad’s old Dick and Jane books. I knew that these books were used to teach the antiquated method of look-say, in which students were required to memorize whole words, and felt glad to have born in the modern age of phonics…