Spelfabet Level 3 v2 Workbook tour

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Could you please explain why you are 'chunking' words and not using the phonemes?

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A lot of the sound-spelling relationships in this workbook are not new, and they should have been practised to automaticity in previous workbooks. This means that the new thing learners are often practising in much of this book is how to work their way through words one syllable at a time, rather than having to laboriously sound out every syllable one phoneme/grapheme at a time (though in some cases they will still have to do this, of course). For example, if they can look at "ing" or final-syllable "le" or other common syllables and just say them without having to first say every phoneme, that's great, there is no need to go back to sounding each grapheme out. We start with individual sounds and their spellings, and then over time we also orthographically map larger word patterns/parts e.g. allowable consonant sequences both before and after vowels. This then helps us identify syllable boundaries and be more able to work our way through long words one syllable at a time. Hope that makes sense.