Boys trail girls in reading - no phonetic instruction

[Tom Zurinskas]

News flash:

"A new report from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) finds that girls now perform as well as boys on state math tests, but boys consistently trail girls on state reading tests."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/87999702.html

Is there a fix?  The study below indicates so.  Phonetics!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/17/nschools17.xml
Phonetics teaching helps boys beat girls
By Liz Lightfoot, Education Editor Last Updated: 2: 35am GMT 17/03/2007

"Boys are as good as girls at reading and spelling and even overtake them when taught quickly and systematically by synthetic phonics.  The more traditional teaching methods eradicate not only the growing gender divide in primary schools but allow children from disadvantaged backgrounds to do as well as those from better off homes."

Note that England is changing to synthetic phonics reading instruction for kids.  Synthetic phonics teaches letter-sound relationships for reading instruction to children.  It is not a truly phonetic system.  So why not use a phonetic system for this?  Because none is tailored for the job until now with truespel.  Only truespel is English based with no special symbols, while preserving standard punctuation and capitalization.  The truespel converter is free at truespel.com for USA accent as taken from "talking" dictionaries.  Only truespel has the capability of integrating reading/ESL instruction, dictionaires, analysis tools, and future translation guides.

For interest in working with truespel, contact me.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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