VC Logic is foundational literacy's soundest venture.  In contrast, ABC Logic is conventional wisdom.

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
ABC Logic:  Pronounceable letter sequences

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.

​More information about speech sounds at WordsAhead.com

​Realize your PERSONAL power to choose the way you think.

​My 3rd Graders eagerly learned and practiced personal responsibility because empowerment is motivational.
"WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, DON'T GO ALONG."  Choices have consequences.

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 these 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.  In a classroom, teachers assert sovereignty, of course.  Disputes do create advocates and adversaries.  Disputes may be a manageable dynamic within free relationships and societies.  Freedom is precious; we may disagree as we continue to give voice and vote.