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2. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing to beginners. To use phonics is to teach the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language ( phonemes ), and the letters ( graphemes) or groups of letters or syllables of the written language. Phonics is also known as the alphabetic principle or the alphabetic code. [2]

3. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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   Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK [6]) that affects either reading or writing. [1] [7] Different people are affected to different degrees. [3] Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing ...

4. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Initial Teaching Alphabet. The Initial Teaching Alphabet ( I.T.A. or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s. It was not intended to be a strictly phonetic transcription of English sounds, or a spelling reform for English as ...

5. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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   Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by problems with the visual notation of speech, which in most languages of European origin are problems with alphabet writing systems which have a phonetic construction. [1] Examples of these issues can be problems speaking in full sentences, problems correctly articulating Rs and Ls as well as Ms ...

6. Reading - Wikipedia

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   Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch.. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

7. Look and Read - Wikipedia

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   BBC One, BBC Two. Release. 9 January 1967. ( 1967-01-09) –. 29 March 2004. ( 2004-03-29) Look and Read is a BBC Television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. [1] The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most recent in 2004, making ...