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Phonics is for teaching them to read. Spelling English words is not helped, I think. It’s the single most difficult to spell language because it has no rules of
by Jolter 3y ago
Phonics is for teaching them to read. Spelling English words is not helped, I think. It’s the single most difficult to spell language because it has no rules of spelling.
- Jolter 3y ago(Well, correction to the above hyperbole: It has rules of spelling but a broken orthography so "spelling cannot be systematically derived from pronunciation, but it also has the more unusual problem that pronunciation cannot be systematically derived from spelling" (wikipedia).