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Catchy rhymes can be a fun and easy way to remember some of those pesky phonics rules. Have you heard this one?
When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.
It’s a cute rhyme that’s easily remembered, and most teachers simply take it for granted that it is true, especially if their phonics program includes the rule as fact. The PBS children’s program Between the Lions even devoted an entire song to the “two vowels go walking” rule.
The video illustrates the concept with a catchy tune and animated letters that walk together (hand in hand, no less!) on a road. But their conversation is one-sided, since the first vowel is the only one that is allowed to “do the talking.”
For the sake of convenience, it would be wonderful if this rule were true—and teaching reading would be much simpler if it were.
But this “rule” is false 60% of the time.
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