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  2. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Dictation is a frequent teaching technique from letter level to word spelling, and eventually extending to text level. Synthetic phonics does not teach letter names until the learners know common letter-sounds thoroughly and how to blend sounds for reading and segment spoken words for spelling. Often when letter names are introduced it is ...

  3. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  4. Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetic writing systems that use an (in principle) almost perfectly phonemic orthography have a single letter (or digraph or, occasionally, trigraph) for each individual phoneme and a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and the letters that represent them, although predictable allophonic alternation is normally not shown.

  5. Letters: I teach at a private school. Gifted students deserve ...

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    Our concerns typically go toward no child left behind and good efforts are taken in those things. How discouraging though for a student to have to sit through a class when they already know the ...

  6. Alphabet book - Wikipedia

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    While students were first trained to recite the alphabet, moralistic readings were framed around the letters of the alphabet. During the American colonial period the more secular "ABC" spellers quickly fell out of favor in comparison with the more religious primers; nevertheless, the alphabet remained the most systematic means of ordering the ...

  7. Letters: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' is completely appropriate ...

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    They simply want their students to think about these issues. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a classic novel that should not be forced into the current revisionist lenses. — Steven C. Woolery, Ames

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  9. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    However, there are only 26 letters in the modern English alphabet, so there is not a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. Many sounds are spelled using different letters or multiple letters, and for those words whose pronunciation is predictable from the spelling, the sounds denoted by the letters depend on the surrounding letters.