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      <image:caption>The Alpha-Phonics PLUS, 2025 Edition is now available in both a Teacher and a Student Copy, making this Homeschool Classic available for use in the classroom. Find it on Amazon. You’ll also find our Original 1983 Home-School Version there, at the same unbelievably low price which is has maintained for over forty years. The new PLUS Supplement was contributed by Meg Rayborn Dawson, author of Dyslexic No More: Saved by the ABC’s (2022). It features Phonemic Awareness Exercises including: Alphabet Sound Charts; Decoding (blending) and Enunciation Drills, extra word lists for the extra-conscientious teacher, and more.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From The National Literacy Institute Website (Literacy Statistics 2024-2025 - Where are we now? Retrieved online Oct. 27, 2024)</image:caption>
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