[SENco-forum] Re literacy (madness)

It is hard to beat 'ghoti' - used to represent 'fish' - even if someone

Knowing where and why the ph/gr relationship changes is one of many layers
to de-coding which do not come automatically to all.  It is only in teaching
children with SpLD have I learnt exactly when the hard 'c' changes to soft
's' as in ice/ace or why 'dge' sounds like it should just need a 'j' .
Before that I just read the word 'correctly'. Lucky me.
Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip MacMillan [mailto:P.Macmillan at exeter.ac.uk]
Sent: 04 January 2007 00:14
To: SEN at tringham.net; Becta Senco
Subject: Re: [SENco-forum] Re literacy (madness)

Ghoti can never make the sound fish in English, gh only makes the /f/ sound
at the end of a word, o makes the /i/ only in the word women, ti only makes
the /sh/ sound if it is the last but one phoneme e.g. nation, ration etc.
Ghoti = fish was promulgated by the whole language conspiracy the same
nonsensical lot who said that children would learn to read just like they
learned to talk by being immersed in speech  by being immersed in print.  It
was Smith who said that you cannot teach children to read.   There is a
runour that some of Goodman's early work was paid for by the Russians who
were trying to destroy the US education system, very nearly succeeded.

Philip EP

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To: "Becta Senco" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [SENco-forum] Re literacy (madness)

> It is hard to beat 'ghoti' - used to represent 'fish' - even if someone
only
> made it up to prove a point.
>
> I think only 60% of words are truly phonetic and the rest rely on the
> application of rules (ice/ace for soft 'c' as 's') which as we know 80% of
> children assimilate with a variety of teaching and use unconsciously.
Some
> words need whole word learning (such as yacht) or back up strategies such
as
> picture games or mnemonics for those with poor visual skills.
> Sharon
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