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Teaching spelling generalisations: eat bread: multiple sounds of ea

Watch this video explaining how to teach students the spelling generalisation known as eat bread, which examines the two most common sounds made by the digraph ea.

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Year level
Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
Purpose
Professional learning
Topic
Systematic Synthetic Phonics
Audience
Teachers, School leaders
Format
Video
Learning area
English
General capabilities
Literacy
Publisher

Literacy Hub

Copyright

© Commonwealth of Australia

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