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Bowers, Jeffrey S. – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
There is a widespread consensus in the research community that reading instruction in English should first focus on teaching letter (grapheme) to sound (phoneme) correspondences rather than adopt meaning-based reading approaches such as whole language instruction. That is, initial reading instruction should emphasize systematic phonics. In this…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Meta Analysis, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Foreign Countries

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