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Wanda Sanseri's explanation of SWR..
The term phonics simply means that the sounds of the letters
are taught. The structure, methods, and timing of doing so varies from
program to program. Most phonics programs use incomplete phonics or
phonics taught at the wrong time. Many phonics programs have faulty rules.
If you see a phonics program that has a list of words to learn by sight
alone, you know that it is an incomplete program. English has amazingly
consistent, reliable rules. Usually the programs with long list of "rule
breaker" words have rules that are not true to the language. For example,
many programs, ABeka included, teach that when two vowels go walking the
first one does the talking. In other words the rule says that if you have
a two-vowel pair (ea, ou, eu) then the first vowel will say its letter name
and the last one will be silent. This would be a great rule if English
consistently worked that way, but it does not. Although there are many
words that appear to follow this pattern, even more words fail to do so. I
consider this at best to be a worthless rule. Try to read the following
words using that rule in reference to just one of the many double vowel
pairs in English: bread, head, deaf, bear, dread, death, realm, cleanse,
health, already, heavy, feather, heaven, treachery, jealousy, meadow,
zealous, meant, treasure, endeavor, pleasant, weather, great, break, steak,
learn, earth, heard, earl, pearl, search, dearth, hearse, yearn, earth,
bureau. This is not even a complete list of words that would be an
exception to that bogus rule. None of these words would be an exception in
SWR.
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