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Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading

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Direct Instruction of Sounds and Symbols

• Teach — How to
• Link to prior knowledge
• Purpose and importance of the learning
• Teacher models the learning
• Practice — Let’s do
• Highly structured practice
• Guided practice
• Apply — You do
• Use the new learning to decode words