HOW LEARNING TO READ REALLY WORKS (Part 4 of 4)
Mono-Syllable Level –- Syllabics Code – Reading Vowel Letters After students can confidently and competently read the consonant letters and blends, the only thing left to learn to read is the vowel letters: a, e, i, o, and u. It is a giant step from the simple procedure of reading the consonant letters at the [...]
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When we read, we decode three totally different alphabetic codes simultaneously: 1. Phonics Code for reading consonants. (letter-level skill) 2. Syllabics Code for reading one syllable words and stressed vowels. (mono-syllable-level skill) 3. Homophonics Code for reading unstressed vowels in multi-syllable words. (multi-syllable word-level skill) When we are LEARNING HOW to read, we do NOT [...]
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Written English is actually three totally different alphabetic codes that we treat as one. When we read Written English, we must read these three totally different codes simultaneously – in three totally different ways – and at the rapid speed of thought (or speech…if reading aloud). The first code is a Phonics Code used for [...]
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Written English is an alphabetic code that was developed to represent the sounds of Spoken English. When we read, we de-code this written alphabetic code. When we spell, we encode…or put the words back into the original written alphabetic code (as recorded in standardized English dictionaries). In the mid-eighteenth century, British scholars standardized (or coded) [...]
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