The Impact of Irregular Words on Early Literacy

Children will not use a left-to-right reading strategy

Children will develop confusions that are difficult to clear up (correct)

Children will not learn most letter-sound correspondences

Teachers will have difficulty instructing children on how to read regular words

When children have little knowledge of letter-sound correspondences (correct)

When children are at-risk instructionally naive

When children are instructionally sophisticated

When children know most letter-sound correspondences

They read words in a left-to-right direction

They use their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences (correct)

They attend to all the letters in the word

They slow down the introduction of irregular words