discursive parity
Now that I’m in the thick of teaching my six year old how to read, I look at words - small innocuous ones that we use so often - for how easily they can be mispronounced, anticipating ahead of time how I’ll help him see the word for what it is.
Take a word like act. The “a” could be long or short, pronounced like ached by accident. Or the “c” could be p…
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