[senco-forum] Phonemes

I only use letter names of vowels (PG trained) and so could be accused of 
not delivering Lit Hour objectives ! By the way graphemes are how you write 
a letter!

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles A. L. McKenzie" <calm at charles-mckenzie.co.uk>
To: <kitty at charles-mckenzie.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Phonemes

Hi,

A lot of children have problems equating the sound to the
spellings...phoneme/grapheme correlation. THRASS aims to prevent this 
confusion  at a later date
by giving the information together....particularly useful  to children who
are visual spatial type learners who need to see the "big  picture".

"Will  someone explain to me (in simple terms) why in the world you need to
teach  letter names (graphemes I believe you call them) to children who are
learning to read - the only time you need them is when someone who doesn't
use a phonics approach to spelling is telling someone else how to spell a
word - that's why I prefer PhonoGraphix to THRASS
Janice secondary  senco herts"

Best  wishes,
Aly

(olanys at aol.com)
Executive Vice Chair APDUK
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