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Greif, Ivo P. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Reports that the rule governing the words in the title category are so unreliable as to be useless. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Phonics, Pronunciation, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Greif, Ivo P. – 1977
Research has shown that the commonly taught phonics rule "a vowel in the middle of a one-syllable word is short" is accurate only 68% of the time, given that a single-syllable word has been correctly identified. A recent research endeavor, which analyzed 138,000 words listed in the "New Grolier Webster International Dictionary of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics