Geraldine Carter is the Founder and Director of Piper Books.
26.6.2023, Geraldine
Carter @ged10 Tweeted the following:
Autonomy in training medics? Teacher’s judgement, observation, adjustment to situation is important but there's only 1 alphabetic code just as one heart, liver etc. Look at high levels of illiteracy in US, Canada, N.Z. Aus inc. prison & YO. Teacher’s using 'balanced' lit. result in this tragedy.
The following is my reply to her tweet:
Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel Jun 26
One alphabetic code? This is true in Bahasa Malaysia where the only letter that has 2 sounds in the letter E.
Is this true with the English Language?
All the vowels represent a minimum of 3 sounds.
Vowel A:
A as in ace,
A as in about
A as in all
A as in apple
A as in arm
Consonant:
G as in giant
G as in giraffe
G as in grass
Geraldine Carter was (I am not sure if she still is) a member of Reading Reform Foundation of UK. Doesn’t this woman know that letters in English represent more than one sound. I list below the sounds represented by the other vowels:
Sounds represented by the letter O
O as in oat, obey, old and over.
O as in object, occupy, offer and office.
O as in onion.
O as in ooze
O as in orchard, orchid, order and orchestra.
Sounds represented by the letter “I”
I as in idea, iron, island and item.
I as in ignorant, ill, improve and in.
I as in irk
Sounds represented by the letter e
E as in each, eel, equal and evil.
E as in earn, early, earth and err.
E as in ebony, echo, elbow and elephant.
E as in eight, eighteen and eighty.
E as in either
E as in ewe.
Sounds represented by the letter ‘U’.
U as in umbrella, under, up and ugly.
U as in uniform, unit, urine and use.
U as in urban, urchin and urge.
To reply to her tweet above that said that ‘Teachers using ‘balanced’ literature results in this tragedy I tweeted the following:
Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel Jun 26
'Teachers know very well that in each class there is a group of children who learn to read easily, whatever method of teaching is used; a group who learn steadily and gradually succeed; and a group of children who struggle and frequently fail.'
The above is from a member of @Reading Reform Foundation UK of which you were a member.
SoR advocates such as Geraldine Carter will Tweet whatever that comes to their mind to smear Balanced Literature.
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