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Mathews, Mitford M. – 1976
The history of teaching people to read is explored from the introduction of the Greek alphabet about 3,000 years ago to the present renewed interest in sound symbol relationships. Greek schoolboys were required to learn first the alphabet in order, next commonly used syllables, and then words. English was first written in the Latin alphabet using…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
