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Understanding the Big Five for the Early or Struggling Reader

Phonemes - The Sounds of Language A phoneme is an individual sound in a spoken word. For example, the word “stop” has four phonemes: /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/; “shop” has three phonemes: /sh/ /o/ /p/. While English has 26 letters, it has about 44 phonemes! These are unique, individual sounds we put together to form spoken words.

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