Which term describes the use of graphophonemic knowledge to pronounce regular words?

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Which term describes the use of graphophonemic knowledge to pronounce regular words?

The action being tested is translating printed letters into spoken sounds by using knowledge of how graphemes map to phonemes. The best term for this in many reading programs is ciphering, since it conveys decoding the word by applying grapheme–phoneme rules to produce its spoken form. When you encounter a regular word, you identify the letters, map them to sounds, and pronounce it—the essence of ciphering. Blending refers specifically to smoothly combining the sounds to form the spoken word, which is a part of decoding but not the whole process. Decoding is the general term, but ciphering is the wording that the item uses to describe applying the coding rules to pronounce the word. Decodable text describes the type of text, not the process.

The action being tested is translating printed letters into spoken sounds by using knowledge of how graphemes map to phonemes. The best term for this in many reading programs is ciphering, since it conveys decoding the word by applying grapheme–phoneme rules to produce its spoken form. When you encounter a regular word, you identify the letters, map them to sounds, and pronounce it—the essence of ciphering. Blending refers specifically to smoothly combining the sounds to form the spoken word, which is a part of decoding but not the whole process. Decoding is the general term, but ciphering is the wording that the item uses to describe applying the coding rules to pronounce the word. Decodable text describes the type of text, not the process.

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