This method points to the 44 sounds represented by the English alphabetic construct and how the combination of these letters blend together to form individual words Phonics and Whole Language Instruction (Ponnuru, 1999). The idea is to teach children the written version of what they hear through the use of, 1) rhymes and alliteration, 2) comparing and contrasting the sounds of words, 3) blending and splitting syllables, 4) performing phonemic segmentation (counting the number of phonemes in a word), and 5) performing phoneme manipulation tasks (adding or deleting a particular phoneme an...

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Then we discuss problems in the research and how they can be addressed. ... How can our experimental model be improved? How can we use the model in future investigations? We turn to the first of these questions in the next section which begins with a review of the thesis findings. 2. ... How might such mastery be achieved? ...

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