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Publication details [#8406]

Savin, Harris B. 1972. What a child knows about speech when he starts to learn to read. In Kavanagh, James F. and Ignatius G. Mattingly, eds. Language by ear and by eye: The relationships between speech and reading. MIT Press. pp. 319–326.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

linguistic consciousness | orthography, teaching of | phoneme | syllable

Annotation

On some children's inability to segment syllables into phonemes. Teaching the spelling of syllables (rather than phonemes or words) is suggested as a remedy.