As with morphemes, there is a lot to learn about phrases beyond a basic dictionary definition of them, but you don't have to know a whole lot to use them for study.
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Most teachers only get a year with their kids in a classroom. I always encourage parents to take the long-range view of literacy, the understanding that literacy is something that develops over the course of a lifetime, not overthe course of a school year.
"Research shows that dyslexic children need systematic instruction. Do you agree with this, and how do you address that in your approach?"
My kiddo pronounced golem as [ˈgɑləm], which is totally not what the decodable book had in mind.
Even before my days with word sums and matrices, it used to frustrate me to find that published phonics word lists always – not frequently, but always – mixed up various patterns featuring two of the same consonant in a row.