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Download full textAlbert, Elaine – 1994
A reading instructor interested in reliving the experience of learning to read for the first time attempted to read "Androcles and the Lion" in Shavian Alphabet. The would-be reader of Shavian faces a page of hooks and slants completely unfamiliar, but there is no translation problem. As soon as the reader can pronounce out loud the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Primary Education
Peer reviewedBackman, Joan; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Examines the development of word recognition skills of 80 school children (grades two-four). Good beginning readers rapidly learn to recognize high frequency words from visual input alone and simultaneously expand and consolidate spelling sound correspondences. Younger and poor readers rely more on phonological information in word decoding.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
