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Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading

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What Kind of Phonics

• Systematic, not random:
  • Preplanned skill sequence
  • Progresses from easier sounds to more difficult sounds
  • High-utility sounds and letters taught first
  • Letters with similar shapes and sounds are separated
  • Vowels separated in sequence of alphabetic instruction