She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

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Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs Robin Fuxa, their education professor at Oklahoma State University. She asks her students if they can feel the way the ...