Posted on 08/15/2011 3:49:34 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Your excerpt of my post makes it sound grammatically incorrect, lol.
I can’t remember if boa is an exception or if it is not an english word.
I didn’t work out the combinations myself. I got out my Spell to Write and Read phonogram cards. The program is genius. I used it to teach my children to read and spell. There are more advanced sounds for some of those combinations as well but I just stuck with the basics.
Here is Wanda Sanseri’s speech to the Senate. Excellent reading!
http://www.bhibooks.net/f/Senate_Speech.pdf
I just noticed the word ‘poem’ in your list. That isn’t an exception. It follows the rule. It says /O/. The rule is that it MAY be used at the end of a word. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be used in the word.
It’s just that “poem” isn’t “pome”, but “poe-em”. Not the same sound you have with “doe”, for instance. And that just made me think of “does”, “duhz” the verb that is, not the plural noun. I had better stop now. “Canoe.” Stopping NOW!
I thank God that I did get the education I did, because when I finally rebelled and said “I'm going to public high school!”, I was shocked at the number of dullards.
That was over 20 years ago; I shutter to think what things are like now in public school...”fag awareness month”, “white devils are the reason the world isn't fair month”...etc...
No thanks!!!
Lol. The ‘o’ in poem makes as /O/ sound. That was the point. ‘Does’ is irregular but ‘canoe’ is not an english word and wouldn’t follow an English rule.
Shoe?
The tutor sized up the kid as “smart.” That’s why the tutor thought the story was interesting.
Also, let me apologize to all the grammarians commenting on which vowel does or does not do the talking. Frankly, I don’t know. I’m not myself much of a grammarian and never learned or understood this generalization.
Right or wrong, the tutor used it; and it prompted the boy to say, “What’s a vowel?” The tutor and I had the same basic reaction: just three little words perfectly captured a huge national problem.
Lol. This is all I am going to get in my pings for the next several days, isn’t it?
I am from West Virginia, what is a shoe? ;)
No need to apologize. You are right about those words sizing up a problem. After years of frustration with whole words, some teachers will return to phonics, however rules like the “two vowels walking” cause many to think that phonics doesn’t work. When a child runs across words like ‘steak’, ‘fruit’ etc, they are confused and the teachers don’t know how to explain. They then throw out the phonics and go back to what they know best. That is why I recommend Wanda Sanseri’s speech. It addresses not only the illiteracy problem but a true solution to the problem. Fake phonics with bogus rules is not going to help.
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