Talk:Free Direct Instruction Curriculum and Training/Reading 1

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Teaching to read can be done more efficiently by teaching with phonetic written symbols. In other words, you have to give prompts to help the reader discriminate between a long "a" sound and a short "a" sound, "ate" and "apple", respectively.

Contents 1 Initial Teaching Alphabet ITA 2 Antimoon.com 3 International Phonetic Alphabet IPA 4 Unifon 5 Truespel/spanglish 6 Dictionary phonetics 7 About.com Definition 8 Other weird links I stumbled across

[edit] Initial Teaching Alphabet ITA

Initial Teaching Alphabet really changes characters of the alphabet to assist in learning to read. These changes are somehow phased out.

[edit] Antimoon.com

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[edit] International Phonetic Alphabet IPA

[2] - cards and order

[edit] Unifon

[3] [4]

[edit] Truespel/spanglish

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[edit] Dictionary phonetics

It appears Cambridge has really changed letters to assist with pronunciation.

[edit] About.com Definition

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[edit] Other weird links I stumbled across

[7] Eric Orthography review