Phonics

Phonics
Editorial for The Times Education Supplement. This was about using phonics to teach English. Interesting anecdote – I am interested in how the English language uses the same words for different things (set, nut, safe, for example) and how words have different spelling but sound the same – in this case hair and hare. I guessed that the hare might be mistaken for a rabbit so cunningly placed a tortoise to act as a signifier for the hare – you know, as in Aesop's The Hare & The Tortoise. Anyway, the art director said "I love the illustration but why have you drawn a rabbit and a turtle?
