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Devin M. Kearns; Matthew J. Cooper Borkenhagen – Reading Teacher, 2024
The core task of reading is to look at letters and identify their sounds and meaning. In English, the spelling system is "quasiregular," meaning it includes many reliable patterns (some so reliable they could be called "rules") but also many inconsistent ones (the sound of "EA" in "heat" vs.…
Descriptors: Reading, English, Semantics, Cognitive Ability
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Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Teacher, 2022
A hallmark of skilled reading is recognizing written words automatically from memory by sight. How beginning readers attain this skill is explained. They must acquire foundational knowledge, including phonemic segmentation, grapheme-phoneme knowledge, decoding, and spelling skills. When these skills are applied, spellings of words become bonded to…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Cronnell, Bruce – Reading Teacher, 1978
Differences between spelling-to-sound and sound-to-spelling correspondences can cause problems in the teaching of reading and writing. (MKM)
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Elementary Education, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics