Pedagogy

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V01/a/ Abstractions will become concrete V01/a/ Clarify sound-letter confusions V01/a/ "Granularity" (smallest sound-units) and "Singularity" V01/a/ Manifest Bloom's Taxonomy V01/a/

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E = C + V English equals Consonant Sounds plus Vowel Sounds. 15 vowels + 24 consonants = 39 sound-units

88 words < 5 seconds each

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A small group of people can make the future happen faster!! Ansari: Usher in a new era of private suborbital

ABC orientation is outmoded

Rethink and reset conventional priorities. Why? ABC-based products – per se – provide incomplete information. Shown here, Nellie Edge's program engages visual

Taught, then Self-Taught

IMPLICIT BIAS (Stanford School of Medicine definition): A positive or negative mental attitude towards something which a person holds at an unconscious

Make “learning to read” better

Recognize the importance of providing focus and context with object-naming. From the earliest months, name relevant tangibles objects like "thumb," "mom"

Alphabet ≠ Sounds

More than 42 million people have watched these colorful graphemes as they stretch and spin. Many speech sound units are ignored

Sounds spelled with more than one letter

Do your teaching materials show all the following spellings which use MORE than one letter? Letter /Aa/... V01/A_E/ have V06/A_E/ age

Compare/Contrast

Here is an educational product called READY TO READ - COMPLETE SYSTEM for Ages 3+. Included are 4 storybooks, 6 activity books,

Compound Words

Train your brain to toggle between two modes of SORTING – what is heard and what is seen. The vowel sounds

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E]… Go for it!!

[A] PHONOLOGICAL ACUITY :: Use WA's Sound Map. Differentiate. Articulate. Blend speech sounds. Rhyme. [B] CONCEPTS OF PRINT :: Spell-out

How to spell her name?

Whenever we talk about "spelling" in regards to language arts, the "how-to" of it all is really very easy. Well...

Hear With Other Ears

"The essence of reproduction, to feel and re-create that which was felt and imparted by the creator (ie., author, composer,

Best Answer

Parsed sound-units are heard before they are spelled-out. This is the best answer to the good question, "How is the

Methods and Practices of Teaching [Pedagogy]

Many educators are taught to teach vowels/consonants and yet most teachers incorrectly think of Letters /b, c, d, f, g,

Call for Revolution

Definition: A sudden and momentous CHANGE which may also be visionary and contrarian. Flip the educational paradigm! Think sounds-to-letters, not letters-to-sounds.

Microscopic Perspective

Hear same sounds, see different spellings: Both words end C23 V12 C37. Seagull is C23/g/ V12/u/ C37/ll/; Google is C23/g/ V12+C37/le/ (spelling is

WA = Critical Thinking

"Critical Thinking" is essentially the ability to place information in perspective, to see connections, and to arrive at conclusions.

Sentence with all letters

To demonstrate fonts, Google Fonts Lato uses the following sentence because it contains every alphabet letter: GRUMPY WIZARDS MAKE TOXIC BREW FOR

WA ≠ TTS

"Text-to-Speech" heeds semi-colons and commas and pronounces words to the best of its ability. TTS is a visual recognition process,

WA = Computational Thinking

"Computational Thinking" is the thought processes involved in formulating problems and their solutions so that the solutions are represented in

Vowels ≠ Letters

Enrollment ≠ Better Learning

UNESCO's Education for All UN's Millennium Development Goals "While these initiatives have succeeded in getting children ENROLLED in school and

Cued Speech

Deaf and hearing-impaired learners may be taught speech sound-units via CUED SPEECH: V01/a/ Look, big crabs! [throat] V02/i/ Look, big crabs!

Explicit Sound-Spellings

In the following list, click on any sound-code. If you scroll down past the graphic/pages you can view relevant vocabulary

Telescopic Perspective

Imagine a human head. Brightest energies are located in both Broca's area of the brain (motor neurons for speech production)

Zero-sum?

I've been wondering to what degree SOUND MAP, *CloudSpelling* and WordsAhead Decodability Rankings for Word Lists might be considered a

Know the Essentials

American Elements.com posts an interactive MAP of basic physical materials shown above, with code-abbreviations, then states a straight-forward call to

Pedagogy

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WA Equations

88 words < 5 seconds each

Let’s do the good work!

ABC orientation is outmoded

Taught, then Self-Taught

Make “learning to read” better

Alphabet ≠ Sounds

Sounds spelled with more than one letter

Compare/Contrast

Compound Words

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E]… Go for it!!

How to spell her name?

Hear With Other Ears

Best Answer

Methods and Practices of Teaching [Pedagogy]

Call for Revolution

Microscopic Perspective

WA = Critical Thinking

Sentence with all letters

WA ≠ TTS

WA = Computational Thinking

Vowels ≠ Letters

Enrollment ≠ Better Learning

Cued Speech

Explicit Sound-Spellings

Telescopic Perspective

Zero-sum?

Know the Essentials

WA Sound Map 2

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