[senco-forum] a defintion of synthetic phonics

In a message dated 11/10/2007 20:15:36 GMT Daylight Time,  
tgrupp at ntlworld.com writes:

I think  that what has been pointed out is that synthetic phonics is 
constructive  while analytic phonics is destructive

I think the clue is in the semantics.

Synthetic - made up, artificial, not real etc

Analytic - thought about, considerered, lateral, reflected upon.

Make it too artificial and the learning is shallow. 

just a thought.

Martin