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Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading

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Why is English Spelling a Challenge?

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough;
Some may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through
Beware of heard a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird…