How three teachers and a little kid taught me that phonics and meaning complement each other
One group with the teacher doing directed fast-paced instruction on letters, sounds and combining them to read syllables, ...
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Reading: Recognising letters and words
Whereas other letter patterns can be pronounced differently, as ou in through, but it's different in the word trout, which has an ow sound. So, one spelling pattern may represent different sounds ...