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Teaching kids the difference between letters and words

July 28, 2014 By thatfunreadingteacher 2 Comments

Teaching kids the difference between letters and words

Do your students know the difference between letters and words? It's of the most fundamental and easily missed concepts about print, and until I was in my training year for Reading Recovery, I had never noticed my students using 'letters' and 'words' interchangeably, or understood why spaces between words, word family patterns and other strategies made no sense to some of them. In their minds, everything was just a big mess of letters (that they … [Read more...]

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