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Promoting Children’s Reading Success Glossary Alphabetic
Principle A writing system design principle that associates
units from the limited set of phonemes of oral language with
units from the limited set of letters of the alphabet, yielding
a highly productive alphabetic writing system. Knowledge of the
alphabetic principle is awareness that written words are
composed of letters that