Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

including reading. There are many visuals strategies we can use to recognise a word, for example the word misunderstanding. We could perhaps use colour to highlight bits in the word to help us ...

Guide to the phonics tool Use this tool to show how the sounds – or 'phonics' – of English can help with reading. Level 1 - The words of English The English we use today includes words that ...

However, reading long numbers resulted in longer fixation durations than reading long words (300 ms vs. 250 ms), and saccade amplitude was lower when reading long numbers.

they are more likely to learn strategies that will raise their reading to grade level. Decoding is the process by which a word is broken into individual phonemes and recognized based on those ...