Re: Phonics

[bobbie silk <bsilk@keller.clarke.edu>]

Hmmm.  I don't know, Lady.  Phonics to teach spelling seems like it would
almost be counter-productive.  Speaking of phonics, does anyone remember
the details of Bernard Shaw's effort to regularize spelling?  I recall
that he used satiric persuasion to make his case to the public, spelling
"fish" phonetically--taking the sounds from the many irregular words in
English (like the "f" in "cough" so that the phonetic representation of
"fish" began with "gh"). And wasn't there a remarkable reading-instruction
theory 20 years or so ago where the primary reading texts had all the
words spelled by true phonetics?  What ever happened to that program?  (I
remember it being disasterous, but perhaps I'm wrong.)

  --Bobbie

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, lady brown wrote:

> Centaurs,
> 
> Yesterday a woman called asking if I know of computer programs
> for teaching phonics to adults.  I don't, but I thought I'd ask
> you all.  She is interested in the program not so much to teach
> reading but rather to teach spelling.  
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Lady Falls Brown
> ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu
> 
>