Resolving US English Pronunciation for ELL and K-3 Reading Woes with Truespel Phonetics
By Tom Zurinskas, 
Problem 1. ELL Pronunciation Woes
English language learners (ELLs) desire to learn the best pronunciation they can get, but ELL teachers shy away from teaching pronunciation because academic phonetics is dauntingly complicated, keyboard unfriendly, and not English based. http://bit.ly/2k8s48A Using truespel phonetics can fix this.
Problem 2. K-3 Reading Instruction Woes
In the USA performance of 3rd grade readers over the years has been flat and not good. About 20% fail 3rd grade reading http://bit.ly/34jbYKS . This leads to costly social impacts. http://bit.ly/2awY5fu
Answer. Truespel Makes Phonetics Easy
Truespel phonetics gives the answer to both problems by provided a US English friendly phonetic system based on phonics using only letters of the alphabet in a most typical way. This approach has been tested and does work- see http://justpaste.it/trueproof.
Truespel is free on the internet at http://truespel.com. The site presents free tutorials and a 2-way converter of 64k words. Reading adepts can learn truespel in a few hours and create teaching sequences for children of a few phonemes per day. For US English there are only 40 phonemes to learn, 23 consonants and 17 vowels, which should only take a few weeks to teach k-3 kids. The site also contains analyses of truespel phoneme investigations showing the frequency of phonics forms as appearing in text. Lots of applications here, especially for assessments
Evidence of the Need for Truespel for K-3Readers and ELL’s
1 The USA has over the years maintained a 20% failure rate for 3rd grade reading.
Studies show that “phonemic awareness “is a must for beginning k-1 readers; but there is no adequate “writable” phonetic notation available http://bit.ly/2BY8qS7 and http://bit.ly/2RY5X1y and http://bit.ly/34jbYKS
2 The best k-1 readers crave a writable phonetic notation and instead create their own phonetic words while trying to write. http://bit.ly/2ws7tNc
3 Teaching academic phonetics and pronunciation is a daunting proposition to k-3 and ESL teachers yet craved by k-3 and ESL learners. http://bit.ly/2RY5X1y
4. 60% of reading experts that responded to a January 2020 Internationa Literacy Association survey said teacher preparation programs are not adequately preparing teachers to provide “effective reading instruction.” http://bit.ly/37C48hp
In Summary
English is based on the alphabetic principle, that letters stand for sounds, but English is so poorly phonetically spelled that it takes extra years to learn compared to other languages https://justpaste.it/spellingenglish I find that for US English, 90% of consonants are spelled in their most popular way while only 50% of vowels are done so (truespel book 4). Thus learners find it hard to decode the sounds of sight words. However, with truespel they can “see” the sounds of a sight word and associate that in memory as well.
Thus, evidence shows that a tailored phonetics is necessary for English more than ever now, since English is the lingua franca of the world. In development since 1986, truespel is the way.