[senco-forum] all of the grapheme/phonemes

It was Philip's quote so maybe he can provide a better answer than I can but ..

We all interpret the information we receive through our senses very individually because our life experiences are very individual - outside mathematics there are no absolutes. There are no truths - only individual perceptions of what we believe to be true. We each arrive at our own conclusions and solutions individually by divining what seems to work for us.

There is no absolute agreement about all of the grapheme/phoneme correspondences. Each of the Great and Good seems to offer his or her own interpretation of what the correct correspondences are and how many of them there are. Only fundamentalist bigots know the real truths and the real absolutes because they are always right.

We each divine what appears to us individually to be correct in what appears to work for us. That is the way it always has been and always will be - thank God.

Synthetics Phonics is not divinely inspired - it is not absolute - it is a set of rules which those of us who support it, more or less agree about   - until we get down to some serious discussion about the absolute details - then we fall out.

We all survived in Education because we worked out our own rules.

Eddie C.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Maggie Downie 
  To: Eddie Carron ; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk 
  Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [senco-forum] all of the grapheme/phonemes

  Eddie, 

  What are the 'real' rules and why can't SP supply/teach them?

  Maggie

  Eddie Carron <eddiecarron at btconnect.com> wrote:
    I know secondary SENCo who are long time enthusiasts for SP but nevertheless have young people in Yr 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 with massive reading deficits. I need no convincing that SP is the most effective means of teaching children to read initially but I do need convincing that SP is the most effective remedial reading strategy for older poor readers. Hence my continued involvement with this age group. I support and applaud secondary school SENCo who use SP because I am very aware of its value but I am equally aware that it will not resolve all of the reading deficits in these older age groups...... as Philip rightly puts it, the children need to be put in a position where they can teach themselves the 'real' rules and so far as I am aware, no-one is doing that yet. I would love to be the first and as they say, 'Hope springs eternal!'

    Eddie C.

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