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Download full textAlbert, Elaine – 1994
Phonics teaches learners how to match the letters of the alphabet to the speech sounds they already know. At age five, children who are ready to learn to read have a vocabulary of some 5,000 words and understand far more than that when they hear them. The problem is that there are 44 sounds in English and only 26 letters in the alphabet. Phonics…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy, English, Initial Teaching Alphabet
