You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: He's right this "phonics program" sucks!
Product review: The problem with "phonics" is that it is a simplistic, educationist view of observable patterns. Phonics doesn't exist in the true linguistic system of our language. What does exist in reality...a beautiful systematic system of phonology, orthography and most importantly morphology. Please learn the REAL English language and then teach the conceptual and very meaningful way our forefathers put it together. Go to "real spelling" with Melvin Ramsden for a peek into a fascinating world of words. Whole language folk will particularly love "Cinderspella" the girl who reads with her mouth completely closed....not making a sound.If we could teach children that graphemes and morphemes are the smallest pieces of meaning and have a wonderfully interesting history we can be teaching WHOLE Linguistics a much better alternative for all children....not boring rote phonics.
