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I think the backlash against phonics is because English just has too many exceptions which makes it frustrating, but it's still important to teach simple phonic
by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think the backlash against phonics is because English just has too many exceptions which makes it frustrating, but it's still important to teach simple phonics (common uses of short and long vowel sounds). Beyond that, any rigid approach is bound to fail because kids just need to get used to the general guidelines of English spelling and learn the exceptions one by one, through guided read-along practice. But the process of making educated guesses on how to say a word based on spelling is part of the learning process.
- markhahn 2y agoI'm imagining a reading curriculum that regards the irregularities as funny little foibles, oddities to point out and wonder about. Like if you go to a park and there's that one place it's too steep to walk, or the other that always floods and is muddy, or the place where mushrooms grow. Complaining about orthographic exceptions is like saying everything should be perfectly flat lawn, a giant grotesque golf course.
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoI wonder how much of it is how, for adults who already understand phonics, teaching it can being repetitive and monotonous. Three cueing offered a teaching theory where kids all sat around with a book with very little teacher intervention.