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by Rezwan on 10/29 at 06:59 PM
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Before you get to whole word recognition, you need to learn the alphabet and sounds that correspond to each letter and group of letters. In other words, you need to learn phonics. Our magnets assume you already know how to read English.  In other words, if you’re an older kid or adult that can read English, the transliteration on the back is a very helpful phonics awareness tool that will help you sound out the word and learn the letters.

Repeated exposure will get your mind to start mapping and recognizing patterns in the letters. Now you’re closer to the whole word recognition part. According to literature on phonics, it takes an average of 38 encounters with a new word before the brain learns to recognize it on sight. This may seem like a lot, but if you keep the magnets out in an exposed place (like on the refrigerator, or other prominent place) you will achieve this number of exposures quickly and painlessly, all while having random, silly fun with a bunch of word magnets.