CRESS = Consistent Regular English Spelling System
Summary:
- It’s simple, fun and fast, a huge stepping stone.
- Teaching CRESS first removes all the mess of spelling.
- Maximum similarity to standard spelling for frictionless transition.
- Phonemic awareness cues (^<>) are built-in, no special teaching.
- It can even stand on its own with automatic conversion to and from.
- It’s a quick trampoline vault over all the problems of spelling and reading.
- You can read it easily. Yu kan rid it izali. Even without phonetic cues. (^<>)
Wake-up Questions
- What single factor can benefit every child starting school? Revise English spelling for Reading!
- What single innovation can help both general society and disadvantaged groups? Fix English spelling!
- How can reading scores for disadvantaged groups be boosted quickly? Simplify English spelling for Reading!
- Do we care if up to 25% of the population is functionally illiterate? Re-engineer English spelling for Reading!
- Do we care if senseless spelling problems disadvantage the disadvantaged? Engineer a steppng stone for Reading!
- Do we care about a system that confuses itself at great economic, social, and psychological cost? Fix English spelling!
- Is there barrier that lowers joy and productivity for a whole society, and minorities in particular? Make reading easy!
- Is there massive waste in human potential from a system that contradicts itself? Revise English spelling for Reading!
- When can new technology disrupt the teaching of nonsense to children?
- What are the costs of being behind the times hundreds of years in sound spelling correspondence?
- Has the cultural engine of phonetic orthography been in reverse gear?
A Huge and Costly Problem
- Traditional English spelling makes no sense
- It’s painfully complicated to learn
- It creates disadvantages for individuals and groups
- It hurts the disadvantaged
- It damages educational self-esteem unnecessarily
- It presents massive difficulties for second language learners
- It ruins the concept of phonetic spelling, humankind’s greatest invention, surpassing the wheel
- It teaches a phonetic idea based on massive phonetic confusion
- It confuses sound-letter correspondences and is the enemy of phonics
- It forces delays access to rewarding reading content
- Reading programs are left to compensate dwelling on the superficial and remedial
A New Scientific and Engineering Innovation: CRESS
- Consistent Regular English Spelling System
- CRESS is carefully designed and Engineered to fix the problem
- CRESS goes back to fundamental underlying basic science principles
- A sound is a sound and a letter is a letter and always the twain shall meet
- CRESS has been carefully engineered for essential requirements over 20 years
- CRESS is the only fully worked-out, effective solution to the English reading problem
Side Benefits
- Shorter text: reading and writing can have 15% fewer characters.
- If any text is converted to CRESS by software, that text becomes readable to anyone who can pronounce English.
- Automatic spelling for non-native speakers (or anyone). If you can say it, you can spell it.
- If a non-native speaker writes an assignment, paper, or thesis in CRESS, based on their own pronunciation, the software converter can translate it to standard English spelling automatically.