Introduction It was the start of my first year teaching infants, I was reading through the support plans for my class and they were full of the mention of 'Dolch words'. I had a vague idea of what these were, but they weren't something I'd thought much about before. It hadn't really come up during my PME training or time on placement, and it definitely wasn't on my radar from teaching 6th class, but I was generally aware of the concept of children in younger class learning of

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