VC Logic is foundational literacy's soundest venture.  In contrast, ABC Logic is conventional wisdom.
Truth is not the enemy.  Every parent, tutor and teacher makes choices and creates consequences.
Most learners learn in spite of errors made by their parents, tutors and teachers.

A day is coming when conventional errors will be exposed and fixed.
This shift must begin in the minds of Learning Leaders for the sake of our children's children's children, etc.

VC Logic:  LISTEN!!
ABC Logic:  LOOK!!

VC Logic:  Phonemes predominate
ABC Logic:  Graphemes predominate

VC Logic:  "Spell them out!" requires parsing sound-units
ABC Logic:  "Sound them out!" requires parsing letter-units

VC Logic:  Vowels and Consonants are mapped and numbered V01–C39
ABC Logic:  Letter names for sounds: Short-A, B-Sound, Hard-C...

VC Logic:  Encode... Hear+Spell
ABC Logic:  Decode... See+Say

VC Logic:  Spellable SOUND sequences (valid attribution)
ABC Logic:  Pronounceable LETTER sequences (convenience alone)

VC Logic:  Sound-Spelling relationships
ABC Logic:  Letter-Sound relationships

VC Logic:  Fluency comes from understanding speech-to-text
ABC Logic:  Fluency comes from memorizing "sight words" and ABC-Phonics

VC Logic:  Pronunciations evoke spellings
ABC Logic:  Spellings evoke pronunciations

VC Logic:  Speech sounds.  Heard, said, spelled, read... ahead of time.
ABC Logic:  Letter-sounds.  Skipping.  Guessing.
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Realize your PERSONAL power to choose the way you think.  My 3rd Graders eagerly learned and practiced personal responsibility because empowerment is motivational.  Choices have consequences.

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, DON'T GO ALONG.

This site is the same call to action.  Leaders of Learning must consider evidence and choose to not go along when things go wrong.  Use your own truth as your defense; perceive the dichotomy, then achieve the fix.

VC Logic is NOT either of these popular methods:
     Shape Logic – Whole-Word Sight Memory
     ABC Logic – Phonics

I was trained and required to teach both of those schemes.  The rich literature of my Whole Language curriculum was far better than fat-cat-sat stories, but I also held a biased conviction that Phonics was too important to ignore.  For decades outside of employment, my calling has been to scrutinize my cherished Phonics.  I have discovered the wrongheadedness of allowing alphabet letters to dominate.

An errant mind-set is manifest in directions like this:  Letters make sounds.  What is this letter's sound?  Let's sound it out.  What does this letter say?

Spoken language requires HEARING blended speech sounds.  Written language requires SEEING blended letters.
HEARING and SEEING always dance together.  When teaching someone to read,  insist that "hearing partner" always takes the lead.  This perspective belongs to each parent, tutor, and teacher.

VC LOGIC teaches Vowels and Consonants as sounds-to-be-spelled.  Sound-spellings!
VC Logic is intrinsically sensible, yet remains an unproven outlier.  VC Logic organizes thinking around speech sounds, mapped V01 through C39; no letter-based attributions.  Learners spell-out what is spoken:  Heard–Said–Spelled–Read (HSSR).

ABC LOGIC (Phonics) teaches letters-to-be-sounded.  Letter-sounds!
Fair warning!!  Phonemic Awareness lessons are not exempt.
​ABC Logic requires learners to sound-out what is on the page:  Seen–Read–Said.  ABC Logic is always organized around alphabet letters and "letter-sounds."  While Whole Word memory simply sees-says, phonics teaches letter rules with letter-based jargon.  ABC Logic is the current conventional wisdom, used by scientific researchers.

Notions of rightness and wrongness will set up intrinsic disputes.  Within classrooms, teachers assert sovereignty, of course, although disputes do create advocates and adversaries.  Disputes may become manageable dynamics within free relationships and societies.  Freedom is precious.  We may disagree and continue to give voice and vote.