Within the education industry,
so-called "reading wars" created allegiances to either
Whole Language methods with little focus on Phonics, or visa versa.
As someone trained in both, I learned to enjoy aspects of each.
Although my bias remains for phonics and against whole-word sight memory,
my calling for 25 years has been to scrutinize Phonics.
Phonics is fatally flawed.
How?! Teaching phonemic awareness is a good beginning,
yet letters are routinely granted sovereignty over speech sounds.
This dichotomy between hearing and seeing is an observable dance.
Sensory modalities determine lesson structure;
incompatibilities are our *new* debate.
Parents, tutors and teachers will always choose – know it, or not –
the underlying logic to be employed as they teach reading.
ABC LOGIC
Conventional wisdom, complicated, scientifically proven.
Organized around alphabet letters and letter-sounds (phonics).
Sound-out what is: Seen. Read. Said.
(Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg...)
vs.
VC LOGIC
Outlier, unproven effectiveness, intrinsically sensible.
Organized around speech sounds, mapped V01 through C39 and spelled-out.
Heard. Said. Spelled. Read. HSSR
WordsAhead WA
(vowels + consonants)
so-called "reading wars" created allegiances to either
Whole Language methods with little focus on Phonics, or visa versa.
As someone trained in both, I learned to enjoy aspects of each.
Although my bias remains for phonics and against whole-word sight memory,
my calling for 25 years has been to scrutinize Phonics.
Phonics is fatally flawed.
How?! Teaching phonemic awareness is a good beginning,
yet letters are routinely granted sovereignty over speech sounds.
This dichotomy between hearing and seeing is an observable dance.
Sensory modalities determine lesson structure;
incompatibilities are our *new* debate.
Parents, tutors and teachers will always choose – know it, or not –
the underlying logic to be employed as they teach reading.
ABC LOGIC
Conventional wisdom, complicated, scientifically proven.
Organized around alphabet letters and letter-sounds (phonics).
Sound-out what is: Seen. Read. Said.
(Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg...)
vs.
VC LOGIC
Outlier, unproven effectiveness, intrinsically sensible.
Organized around speech sounds, mapped V01 through C39 and spelled-out.
Heard. Said. Spelled. Read. HSSR
WordsAhead WA
(vowels + consonants)
ABC Logic: LOOK!!
VC Logic: LISTEN!!
ABC Logic: Conventional, scientifically-based, expert-recommended
VC Logic: Unconventional
ABC Logic: Graphemes predominate
VC Logic: Phonemes predominate
ABC Logic: "Sound them out!" requires parsing letter-units
VC Logic: "Spell them out!" requires parsing sound-units
ABC Logic: Letter names for sounds: Short-A, B-Sound, Hard-C...
VC Logic: Vowels and Consonants are mapped and numbered V01–C39
ABC Logic: Decode... See+Say
VC Logic: Encode... Hear+Spell
ABC Logic: Pronounceable letter sequences
VC Logic: Spellable sound sequences
ABC Logic: Letter-Sound relationships
VC Logic: Sound-Spelling relationships
ABC Logic: Fluency comes from memorizing "sight words" and ABC-Phonics
VC Logic: Fluency comes from understanding speech-to-text
ABC Logic: Spellings evoke pronunciations
VC Logic: Pronunciations evoke spellings
ABC Logic: Letter-sounds. Skipping. Guessing.
VC Logic: Speech sounds. Heard, said, spelled, read... ahead of time.
More information about speech sounds at WordsAhead.com
VC Logic: LISTEN!!
ABC Logic: Conventional, scientifically-based, expert-recommended
VC Logic: Unconventional
ABC Logic: Graphemes predominate
VC Logic: Phonemes predominate
ABC Logic: "Sound them out!" requires parsing letter-units
VC Logic: "Spell them out!" requires parsing sound-units
ABC Logic: Letter names for sounds: Short-A, B-Sound, Hard-C...
VC Logic: Vowels and Consonants are mapped and numbered V01–C39
ABC Logic: Decode... See+Say
VC Logic: Encode... Hear+Spell
ABC Logic: Pronounceable letter sequences
VC Logic: Spellable sound sequences
ABC Logic: Letter-Sound relationships
VC Logic: Sound-Spelling relationships
ABC Logic: Fluency comes from memorizing "sight words" and ABC-Phonics
VC Logic: Fluency comes from understanding speech-to-text
ABC Logic: Spellings evoke pronunciations
VC Logic: Pronunciations evoke spellings
ABC Logic: Letter-sounds. Skipping. Guessing.
VC Logic: Speech sounds. Heard, said, spelled, read... ahead of time.
More information about speech sounds at WordsAhead.com