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Groff, Patrick – Illinois Schools Journal, 1985
The criteria of 75 percent utility for phonetic rules to be used in reading instruction may be based on faulty logic. Once children achieve approximate pronunciation by applying phonetic rules, they usually can infer proper pronunciation. This supports teaching children to find and pronounce little words in larger unknown words. (MCK)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
