[SENco-forum] do letters have sounds?

I am not sure how they can be learned other than having first heard them and
then seen them in contextual sentences.

I use these words with my high level English learners just to trip them up
once they think they have cracked it!

Sharon

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Subject: [senco-forum] do letters have sounds?

If we are presented with the sentence: "Te rough, tough, dough-faced
ploughman coughed and hiccoughed his way through the streets of
Loughborough", how do we work out in each case how to pronounce "-ough"?

Answer later!

Replies please

Stuart

p.s. must be the start of term!

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