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Full-alphabetic phase

Develops good working knowledge of the major sound-symbol

correspondences and uses that knowledge to decode unfamiliar

words.

Can read words by analogy because sight-word store has

developed sufficiently.

Reading is initially slow and laborious, but speed and facility with

words grow as sight-word vocabulary increases and as familiarity

with the ways sounds are typically blended to create words

increases.