Please see Romalda Spalding’s “The Writing Road to Reading”. English is overwhelmingly phonetic if you are actually taught the phonemes and the phonograms that represent them. 70 phonograms (letters and letter combinations) and 30 usage and punctuation rules.
100 little facts and you can read, write, spell and speak the English language. Most people think English isn’t phonetic because they have never been taught the full code and the history behind it.
Instead they’ve learned a mishmash of various sight reading methods with a little bit of phonics and think spelling is impossible and illogical.
Miseducation at it’s best.
Now that is an interesting statement. I'll have to check out Spalding's book.
EXACTLY!!! Those who are taught Phonics do a much better job with reading and writing than those taught to “sight read” and other such teaching “methods”.
And, people wonder why so many children graduate illiterate?