

Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts, 1998 see References Irregular Word: A word that cannot be decoded because either (a) the sounds of the letters are unique to that word or a few words, or (b) the student has not yet learned the letter-sound correspondences in the word (Carnine, Silbert & Kame'enui, 1997 see References). Those words are referred to as irregular words.

Words begin with a stop sound and end with a consonant blendĪlthough decoding is a highly reliable strategy for a majority of words, some irregular words in the English language do not conform to word-analysis instruction (e.g., the, was, night). Words are longer and end with a consonant blend VCC and CVCC words that begin with a continuous sound VC and CVC words that begin with continuous sounds Simple Regular Words - Listed According to Difficulty (reading the word without sounding it out)

(sounding out the word in your head, if necessary, and saying the whole word) (saying each individual sound and pronouncing the whole word)

The alphabetic principle is composed of two parts: Examples of Alphabetic Principle skills.Definitions of key Alphabetic Principle terminology.
