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Word recognition

Word recognition - the ability to see a word and know how to pronounce it without consciously thinking about it. This domain of reading involves phonological awareness and accurate decoding of words at the phoneme level. Word recognition and language comprehension are the two domains of reading represented in the Simple View of Reading.

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