I created Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping in 1983 to help students (and teachers) understand the reality that the number of sounds (phonemes) they hear in a word may be different from the number of letters that represent those sounds. This procedure employs a variety of mapping methods to illustrate the complex, yet predictable, phoneme grapheme relationships in…
Excerpt from Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, by Kathryn E. S. Grace “I have been looking forward to this publication for a long time. In the LETRS professional development manuals, I presented the ideas around which Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping was developed, hoping that every teacher would soon be able to obtain…