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Learn to Read by Learning the Vowel Sounds

11/28/2015

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​Reading failure is sweeping across the United States.  Research has proven that memorizing word lists will never teach children to read.  Yet, many schools continue to use that method.  Unfortunately, unless you can memorize an entire dictionary, memorization is doomed to fail.  Old-style phonics is also being resurrected by some schools.  Phonics rules fail because there are too many exceptions to the rules.  One of the cutest vowel rules says:  "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking."  It's cute.  The children love it; unfortunately, the rule doesn't work.  Look at these words:  heart, break, height.  These are just a few examples.  Children become confused when they memorize phonics rules that do not consistently work. 
 
The answer is phonemic awareness--no memorization and no rules.  Phonemic awareness teaches children to break a word down into letter sounds, and then to put those sounds back together to form a word.  Phonemic awareness works with even the most at-risk readers.  If you need help, contact me at clantonharpine@hotmail.com. 
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    Elaine Clanton Harpine, Ph.D.

    Elaine is a program designer with many years of experience helping at-risk children learn to read. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Counseling) from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    if you teach a child to read, you can change the world.

    Copyright 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elaine Clanton Harpine 

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