Hi, Peter - good to hear from you. I haven't had time to look through all this again in detail, but I don't think there are any word-lists as such for reading. For spelling, a few example words are suggested for each grapheme-phoneme correspondence but they are non-statutory. The only statutory wor...

Debbie Hepplewhite wrote:Hi Peter,

It's good to have you on the RRF forum again - long time, no 'see'.

All the best with your teaching!

Thank you for the kind greeting. It's good to be welcomed.

Greetings again from Japan! As we say here, 'Yoroshiku onegaishimasu...' which translates to something like 'please be kind to me...' Wow, my last visit was almost precisely three years ago. Those years have been devoted to church work and street ministry, which has become my primary focus. The reas...

In addition, both the first and last "a" in "banana" could go in the /o/ row, although obviously both tend toward schwas, being in unaccented syllables. As an American with a 'Midland North American' dialect, let me happily concur with everything Rod wrote, (everything!) except that one line above....

Thank you, Marlene. I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about this. You wrote: the notion of 'product' and the multiplication sign is absurd. The only notion that it can apply to is that if, either decoding or comprehension is nil, then reading cannot take place. (similar to maths and multipl...

Dear RRF: Anyone interested in the intersection of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Linguistic Phonics is invited to view a video of myself presenting: Four Principles of Language Teaching a 45 minute QuickTime recording trying to show how these four principles: 1) the Alphabetic Pri...

Sincerely, this thread is a testimony to the diligence and good character of each of the participants. Thank you to each of you. We're on the same team, and I think each of us is well aware of that. Marlene's questions are constructive, and the objections she raises expose weaknesses in our own expl...

Well done, and well deserved. Congratulations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_t ... ish_Empire

Best regards, Peter Warner.

Congratulations, Debbie. Well done and well deserved.

Wow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_t ... ish_Empire

Best regards, Peter Warner.

Dear RRF (and friends of RRF):

May you be blessed with health, harmony and happiness this new year.

May your hearts, homes and classrooms be filled with goodness and good works.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Best wishes to all, Peter Warner.
(in Japan, where it's 15 minutes after midnight 2012/01/01)

Dear RRF and All:

May God be with us on this occasion of Christmas Day 2011.

Let us give thanks for the gift of Love and Life, and share it abundantly.

With best wishes for all, Peter Warner.

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Thank you, kenm for that response. That passage of Pinker's words precisely echoes the passage from Psalms 1:7. (Pinker) The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. Yes. We should be careful not to confuse temporal, worl...

Nothing to do with handwriting (or is it?) but it can be interesting to observe how children hold and manipulate their cutlery at meal times. I wonder if some are ever taught how to hols a knife & fork... They are clearly related, as they both indicate how seriously adults take their responsibility...

Dear RRF: This article presents some interesting points about the advantages of printed books, many of which are easy to overlook: http://jewishworldreview.com/0811/e-books_warning.php3 Each format (bound or digital) have useful and helpful features, it would be a mistake to discard either. Best reg...

Thank you all for your helpful comments. I don't really have any objection to any of them, but I do sense a slightly different perspective. For the sake of understanding I should explain that in this discussion, I'm more concerned about the writing pattern than the precise pronunciation. My attentio...