Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Regular and Exception Words

Author: Sebastian Wren

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• Published: 1999

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English text is an example of a deep orthography -- that means that many words in English text are not spelled the way they sound. Teachers of young readers simultaneously need to teach children to decode words by sounding them out, and at the same time, they need to explicitly teach children the correct pronunciation for words that can not be accurately sounded out. To help teachers, we've compiled a database of what are commonly known as exception words or irregular words -- words that are not spelled the way they sound.

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