Here is a picture of a poster that hangs in my office.The poster explains Vowe...

Here is a picture of a poster that hangs in my office.
The poster explains Vowel Rule 3: When a word or syllable with two vowels ends in “e” the first vowel is usually long and the “e” is silent.
Huh?
Phonics didn’t make any sense to me in first grade, and it doesn’t make any sense to me now.
I remember telling my mother that I wanted to learn how to read and that phonics wasn’t helping me at all.
And this what my mother said: “Well, I guess you’ll have to find your own way then. Why don’t y...