immanuelle: I often misread thread headings and have to do a double take, especially poll headings. As a teacher, I come across a lot of fun little exercises which really help me to understand how children learn and how our minds function. This is an exercise in how we decode when reading. I am not sure if it is easier for people whose mother tongue is English. Hope you have a bit of fun trying this out. Funnily enough, a little one that I tried it out on said: ’This is really easy for me, because I sometimes spell the word this way anyway’.
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The only problem with this exercise is that for children with reading disabilities all the letters are mixed up so the first and last are not in their proper places which makes it like reading scrambled words for us and if the first and last letters were still in place children don't read well enough for their minds to guess the words.