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Stanback, Margaret L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1992
This analysis of 17,602 frequently used words found that 616 orthographic rimes occurred in rime families as building blocks of almost all the 43,041 word syllables. Of these, 436 were both regular and consistent in pronunciation, and only 86 had less than a 90 percent level of consistency. Results suggest the usefulness of rime units for teaching…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Language Patterns, Phonology