Teachers Need to Know that Kids Crave Phonetics
There is a giant gap in basic education today. K-1 reading teachers are not taught to teach phonetics to kids or ESL’s for US English. In fact, this is rightfully so because academic phonetics contains special symbols that are user unfriendly, see video Click Here (click to expand video, and ESC to return). Truespel solves this problem by basing phonetics on regular letters like phonics, linking them both. Truespel is simple and can be learned in a day by literates and in few weeks by k-1 kids. Also, it’s free over the internet with a free converter at https://truespel.com and more info there.
Important — Now we know that little kids crave phonetics. Studies show, Click Here, that the best US k-1 readers are the ones that try to WRITE words in their own phonetic systems because the US system does not teach them a system. Truespel builds on their need by introducing a phonetic system that kids can really use to write and read phonetically. In a month or so k-1 kids can type words phonetically and read them relating regular words to phonetic words to see phonic relationships.
Using phonetics-first
Using phonetics-first reading instruction is proven to work well and not cause sight word dissonance. See IBM’s “Writing to Read” results, Click Here, that proves this point and shows no negative feedback on learning phonetic spelling first on learning traditional spelling.
The Need
Right now more than 20% of 3rd graders in my state typically fail reading. Failure brings serious life issues for them http://bit.ly/2kG7EDg Schools need another tool to reach more kids by teaching phonetics first. Phonetics is much simpler than phonics with less to learn and also amplifies how phonics actually works in several ways to spell sounds. Click Here .
The National Reading Panel of 2000 has proven – Click Here -that phonemic awareness is needed for learning reading. A generation of whole-word-only advocates has been proven wrong. There is no excuse for not trying truespel phonetics for teaching phonemic awareness because phonetics is not difficult anymore.
Note that my paper, “The Costs of Poor Reading Skills”, shows the need for teaching reading correctly: Click Here
