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Segmenting words into phonemes
Learners need to be able to segment words into their component phonemes so that they can then use their phonics knowledge to ascribe a grapheme to each phoneme and thus spell the word correctly.
In this short clip you can see a multi-sensory approach to segmenting words into individual sounds (phonemes):
Now watch this clip to find out how to use Elkonin boxes: