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Teaching Irregular Words: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Can Go from Here
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Colenbrander, Danielle; Wang, Hua-Chen; Arrow, Tara; Castles, Anne – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2020
Instruction in regular letter-sound relationships is a key element of teaching children to read. However, in the English language, many words have irregular spellings (e.g. "said," "are," "yacht"). What is the best way to help children learn to read these words? To date, a number of different viewpoints have been put…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods