Florida Literacy Coalition Convention April 2015  - Orlando FL              

“The Science Behind Truespel Phonetics” (list of links)

Presentation by Tom Zurinskas, creator of truespel phonetics  Contact  tzurinskas@yahoo.com  

                                        See the slide show slides at http://bit.ly/1VXQlEi  

 Links in the presentation  (click to go, back arrow to return)

• http://justpaste.it/poorreadingcost  2008 paper on the cost of poor reading skills
• http://truespel.com The truespel phonetics site  
• http://truespel.com/en  The truespel two-way US English phonetic converter
• http://accessyoutube.org.uk/truespel     Site that lists many truespel YouTube tutorial videos
• http://names.voa.gov US government official phonetics for international broadcast
• http://upodn.com   An IPA converter
• http://tinyurl.com/ipaconverter   Another IPA converter from Modelino
• http://bit.ly/13MLm4P  The“New” British Council BBC phoneme chart  for teaching English
• http://screenr.com/V0ZN  The Great truespel phonics chart for phoneme popularity in text
• http://bit.ly/phonpop   Link to Truespel Book 4 for all phoneme popularity analysis data
• https://justpaste.it/krn9   Phoneme popularity with tradnemes ranked by percent
• http://justpaste.it/aqe   Video of each letter is analyzed for popularity of spelling sounds.
• http://bit.ly/voadict   Link to VOA dictionary with truespel pronunciation guide
• http://justpaste.it/truescience   Links show scientific truespel phoneme investigations
• http://justpaste.it/truecriteria   A listing of criteria for an English-based phonetic guide 
• http://justpaste.it/comcoreenglish  Shows “phonetics” in the US Common Core curricula   
• http://bit.ly/1pUN8FJ  Lucy Calkins Common Core reading method leaves phonetics to districts
• http://n.pr/1J9QTEW   Ohio phonics in 2014 reduces 3^rd G non-readers to 4.2%
• http://www.childrenofthecode.org   Details how tradspel is hard on children
• http://www.screenr.com/XOn8    shows truespel phonetics of slang words
• http://1.usa.gov/1n2h3Pb     Shows that schools aren't giving ESL children much support
• http://bit.ly/1d1sbqD    94% European upper level school kids chose English as second language
• http://abcn.ws/1joEnno   China state employees must learn some English and all school children
• http://bit.ly/1cJmIRM    “Synthetic Phonics” in UK is taught like phonetics
• http://bit.ly/17toJRn   IBM’s “Writing to Read” in 1980 had kids writing phonetically in k-1
• http://bit.ly/1hnmnGV    SRA Reading Mastery teaches phonics like phonetics and kids do well
• http://bit.ly/1afIkGb    Synthetic phonics works like phonetics but is not a consistent system
• http://bit.ly/R2fIUa   Video on how to use the truespel phonetic converter
• http://screenr.com/dxHN   How to pronounce some dinosaur names using truespel
• http://screenr.com/fPaH   “Happy  Birthday” in 15 languages written in truespel
• http://screenr.com/GXBN   Demonstrating the ease of writing phonetically as you speak
• http://justpaste.it/koreatrials   High school Korean kids prefer truespel to IPA
• http://justpaste.it/teachertrain   Videos are listed as a suggested teacher training course
• http://justpaste.it/course2   Learn truespel on your own through videos
• http://justpaste.it/truespelnow    Explains the need for truespel phonetics now
• Added 8/15 http://stanford.io/1Irdi1x  EEG Proof that phonics/phonetics excites "reading' side of the brain.