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  2. 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 ...

  3. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The I.T.A. originally had 43 symbols, which was expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represented a single English sound (including affricates and diphthongs), but there were complications due to the desire to avoid making the I.T.A. needlessly different from standard English spelling (which would make the transition from the I.T.A. to standard spelling more difficult), and in ...

  4. Cognitive clarity theory of learning to read - Wikipedia

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    Lev Vygotsky shown in his seminal work, Thought & Language (originally published in the Soviet Union 1934) Between 1960 and 1969, Downing was the director of the Reading Research Unit within the Institute of Education at the University of London, where he spent nearly a decade studying children learning to read using the initial teaching alphabet and equally control groups of children who did ...

  5. John Downing (educational psychologist) - Wikipedia

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    The reading research unit was created to run a trial of James Pitman's initial teaching alphabet, a novel approach to teaching children to read where an interim orthography, consisting of an alternative alphabet and regular spelling system were used instead of the irregular traditional English orthography.

  6. Emergent literacies - Wikipedia

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    Improving alphabet learning in the classroom. It is best to teach letters using a multicomponent approach. [16] This is where letter names, sounds, recognition, and writing are all taught together. When teaching letters, incorporating content and text where the letters are found will be beneficial. [16] For example, if the letter /c/ has been ...

  7. Reading readiness - Wikipedia

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    Reading readiness has been defined as the point at which a person is ready to learn to read and the time during which a person transitions from being a non-reader into a reader. Other terms for reading readiness include early literacy and emergent reading. Children begin to learn pre-reading skills at birth while they listen to the speech ...