
Brains On: How Do We Learn to Read — and Why is It Hard?
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How to Decode Words
When you're learning to read this way, you'll start with simple words like dog or rag. And here's where your previous knowledge of words comes in. You can also make the ph sound by using the letters P and H together. Or in the word laugh, which is spelled L-A-U-G-H, where is the ph sound coming from? It's from the letters G and H. Unless you're spelling the word ghost, which is G-H-O-S-T, and in this case G plus H equals... G.
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