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| "Je peux dire les mots quand je les vois,"said Jeanne,"mais je ne les comprends pas." "Impossible,"said Owl. |
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| Both my youngest children couldn't read the word 'would' using phonics but could read it in syntactic context. |
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| "This is a list of words,"said Roo to Pooh."What's that for?"said Pooh."It's so that the words are in a list,one under the other,"said Roo. |
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| "Can people learn to read in any way other than doing phonemes and graphemes?"said Roo. "Only in the past. Not any more,"said Owl. |
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| "This is a book,Roo,"said Eeyore."Stop right there,Eeyore,"said Owl."Roo isn't ready for that." |
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| Some decode but don't 'get' what the thing they've decoded means. Some decode c-v-c's and can't decode non-regular words... |
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| "Sorry,"said Owl,"I shouldn't have said 'r' is 'rer'.It's 'r' as in 'red', Roo. Then you say 'oo'". "Red-oo',"said Roo. 'No,Roo,"said Owl. |
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| "Some words, Roo," said Owl, "are tricky.You learn these by learning that they are tricky.And then you learn them." |
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| people discover what they represent in different ways...because...amazingly...people are different. |
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| Then when children spell out their names they say 'err' or 'ruh' when identifying the letter 'r'. |
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| 'o' can be tricky to pronounce consistently. For example, in the sentence: Shove off Gove. |
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| "first, fast and only' - a phrase from phonics 'experts'. |
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| 'car' in Devon is not c plus digraph. It's c-v-c |
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| 'ar' in Devon is different from 'ar' in London. Devon, two clearly different phonemes. In London, one. |
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| Love people telling me what the phoneme for 'r' is. UK is divided over whether to 'sound' the 'r' in eg 'mother' or 'card'. |
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| phoneme for 'r' is not rer or ruh - not sure how you'd type it tho!! |
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| Been looking at some school phonics guidelines for parents: eg 'decoding is reading words'. Rubbish. 'reading' is making letters mean stuff. |
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| . Ruh ooo ruh ooo you mean said C.Robin knowingly. |
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| I don't think /r/ grapheme is pronounced conventionally as rer. You might require some basic phonics training Michael. |
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