Phonemic Approach

Phonemic Approach

The phonemic approach is based on sound–symbol relationships. 

The phonemic approach:

• provides beginning spellers with generalisations 
• is advantageous when applied to regularly spelling words (mat) 
• is problematic with spellings that produce the same sound (long ‘e’ sound as in ‘teen’ and ‘bean’)  
• is problematic with multisyllabic words with an unstressed vowel because the ‘uh’ sound could be spelled with any vowel (adorable).