On 7.3.2022, The Reading Ape @TheReadingApe tweeted the following:
'...many first grade readers who struggle to master orthographic-phonological coding and read laboriously while they are doing so, may be more on track for becoming independent readers than readers who memorize words and disregard the alphabetic principle.' (Rayner et al., 2012).
I then tweeted as follows:
If kids learn the alphabetic principle should they not memorise words?
What is wrong in memorising words and at the same time learning the alphabetic principle?
