Many educators are taught to teach vowels\/consonants and yet most teachers incorrectly think of Letters \/b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z\/ as consonants and \/a, e, i, o, u\/ as vowels.<\/p>\n
Vowels\/consonants are SPEECH SOUNDS<\/strong>, not letters, so words with one individual vowel sound (e.g. a, eye, oh\/owe, ah, ow) ought to be represented only with a capital letter “veee” V<\/strong>, not conventionally itemizing individual letters\u00a0\/e\/ \/y\/ \/e\/ as\u00a0vcv<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Words with a vowel sound and<\/span> a consonant sound (e.g. at, if, ought, up, egg, ate, ice, owed, eat, all, our, oil, irk) are correctly Vc<\/strong>. \u00a0C<\/span>onventional pedagogy<\/span>\u00a0wrongly represents\u00a0ought<\/em> as\u00a0vvccc<\/em>\u00a0\/o\/ \/u\/ \/g\/ \/h\/ \/t\/.<\/p>\n WordsAhead says cVc<\/strong>\u00a0equals consonant-vowel-consonant (e.g. hat, ship, dot, cup, bell, cane, kite, cone, tube, feet, ball, hook, down, boys, girl). \u00a0Conventional pedagogy<\/span>\u00a0wrongly thinks about letters:<\/p>\n Wrongly\u00a0cvvc<\/em>\u00a0for “book”; correctly\u00a0cVc<\/em><\/p>\n Wrongly\u00a0cvcv<\/em>\u00a0for “tube”; correctly\u00a0cVc<\/em><\/p>\n Wrongly\u00a0cvccc<\/em>\u00a0for “might”; correctly\u00a0cVc<\/em><\/p>\n Wrongly\u00a0cvvcc<\/em>\u00a0for “laugh”; correctly\u00a0cVc<\/em><\/p>\n WordsAhead says ccVc<\/strong> includes two consonant sounds, one vowel sound, then one consonant sound (e.g. plays, smile, croak, stoop, clean, fraught, plowed, spoil, flirt). \u00a0Conventional pedagogy<\/span>\u00a0wrongly represents fraught<\/em> as\u00a0ccvvccc<\/em>\u00a0\/f\/ \/r\/ \/a\/ \/u\/ \/g\/ \/h\/ \/t\/. \u00a0It is, therefore, no mystery why learners are fraught<\/span> with confusion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many educators are taught to teach vowels\/consonants and yet most teachers incorrectly think of Letters \/b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z\/ as consonants and \/a, e, i, o, u\/ as vowels. Vowels\/consonants are SPEECH SOUNDS, not letters, so words with one individual vowel sound (e.g.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}