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Partial alphabetic phase

Develops a rudimentary knowledge of the alphabetic principle

Uses letters (usually initial letters) and context to guess unfamiliar

words

Knows the consonant sounds whose letter names contain those

sounds (b, d, m, p, etc.)

Not yet able to use analogizing as a tool since the sight-word store

is not large enough

May not have acquired a strong left to right orientation (reads was

for saw)