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What are adjacent consonants?

Posted on by Tami Reis-Frankfort in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a Comment on What are adjacent consonants?

Synthetic Phonics programmes now talk of ‘adjacent consonants’. What are adjacent consonants? Why is it that the letters ‘bl’ in the word ‘black’ are adjacent consonants while ‘ck’ are not?

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