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Download full textAlbert, Elaine – 1994
A reading instructor interested in reliving the experience of learning to read for the first time attempted to read "Androcles and the Lion" in Shavian Alphabet. The would-be reader of Shavian faces a page of hooks and slants completely unfamiliar, but there is no translation problem. As soon as the reader can pronounce out loud the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Primary Education
Albert, Elaine – 1986
Intended to help children learn phonics and to learn how to use phonics, this handbook is modeled on the 15th century hornbook. The handbook is divided into three parts: (1) "What Went Wrong?"; (2) "HOW to Teach Someone to Read by Beginning with Basic Phonics"; and (3) "Special Problems." Nineteen references and a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonemic Alphabets, Phonics
Albert, 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
