English orthography, or the English spelling system, may  not be as transparent or easy to spell as Spanish, Italian, or Serbo-Croatian, but overall it is more predictable than not.

Must Do: 

• Read Teaching Reading Sourcebook (3rd ed.) the chapters titled 

  • Decoding and Word Recognition Introduction (pgs. 161-168)

  • Phonics (pgs. 169-240)

  • Irregular Word Reading (pgs. 241-258)

  • Multisyllabic Word Reading (pgs. 259-318)

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Should Do: 

• Read this chart on the various position-based spelling in English. 

• Read Ehri's Phases of Word-Reading Development.

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Aspire to Do: 

• Watch "WIDA Model: An Introduction?" video clip available below.