Pozzle
Many children learn to read those tricky words quite easily - if they have been talked to and read to from babyhood and have a good vocabulary. They are much harder for less fortunate ones.
Pozzled
Those words are far more troublesome for children who have more trouble learning to read than your or my dd it. They stumble over those far more than the 181 high frequency words which have the main sounds for the main English spelling patterns and with which phonics works really well:
a, am, an, and, as, at, back, bad, can, cat, dad, gran, grandad, had, has, hat, man, rabbit, ran, sat, than, that, that?s,
came, gave, made, make, place, take, same, name, baby,
away, day, may, play, say, way,
car, dark, garden, hard, park,
bed, best, better, eggs, end, fell, get, help, let, let?s, next, red, tell, them, then, very, well, went, yes, her,
been, feet, green, keep, need, queen, see, sleep, three, tree, trees,
big, children, did, didn?t, different, fish, him, his, if, in, is, it, it?s, its, king, little, miss, still, thing, things, think, this, will, wind, wish, with,
birds, first, girl,
inside, like, liked, time, I, I?ve, cried, night, right, by, fly, my,
box, dog, fox, from, got, hot, long, lots, no, not, of, off, on, so, stop, stopped, top, floppy, across, along,
cold, old, told,
go, going, home, over, clothes,
or, for, horse, morning,
found, house, mouse, our, out, round, around, shouted, about, boy,
but, duck, fun, just, much, mum, must, run, sun, under, up, us, jumped, suddenly,
use,
their, they, new, again, air, because, began, boat, window.
If it wasn't for the words with irregular spellings which I pasted in earlier, learning to read English would be much easier and take a fraction of the time it does now, and nobody would dream of using anything but phonics for teaching reading. The difficulties are caused entirely by the rogue spellings which don't use the main patterns:
wag - was, ear - early, dream - dreamt, now - slow.