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What is the Alphabetic Principle?

The alphabetic principle is composed of two parts:

  • Alphabetic Understanding: Words are composed of letters that represent sounds.

  • Phonological Recoding: Using systematic relationships between letters and phonemes (letter-sound correspondence) to retrieve the pronunciation of an unknown printed string or to spell words.

    Phonological recoding consists of:

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