As mentioned in my blog post yesterday, Ethan said that Reading Horizon teaches the word cat as follows:
At Reading Horizons, we use successive blending to eliminate the extraneous sounds often accompanying stop consonants.
For example, 'cat' would be reduced to 'ca' and then made into 'cat'. The vowel following the consonant necessarily eliminates those extra sounds.
What nonsense is Ethan Lynn and Reading Horizons disseminating to the masses?
Somehow NONSENSE makes a lot of sense to most of the people around the world.
Let us look at the absurdity of the following statements by the two ‘educators’.
‘A’ stands for apple but changes a little bit depending on the letters before it or after it. So, it doesn’t sound exactly the same. The idea of a phoneme is a construct that is not true. (Dr. Kathryn Garforth)
It’s a simplification to think about phonemes as having a single sound, however our brains are able to cope with that slight variability in that co-articulation that happens according to the consonant or vowel that’s on the other side. (Jennifer Buckingham)
