When I started first grade, already knowing how to read, I hated it because my school was trying a new, phonetic approach to teaching, called the international Teacher's alphabet. every vowel sound had a unique symbol, so those words were how I was told to spell
Book
cake
cat
school
And I argued a lot with my teacher about it and never really recovered to learn to spell correctly until I was teaching spelling myself
I know it isn't an ANAGRAM @bulldog but seriously, I had no ideas on a picture for that word
Also, just so you all can smile with me, MAY 21 is my 29th wedding anniversary
I'm not sure about this. I taught my girls phonics with Sing, Spell, Read & Write and I loved it. They are great readers and spellers today. I didn't have phonics in school, so I really think this works. :-) By the way I like your shot not the system so much. Happy early anniversary!!!!! A wonderful blessing :-)
Great pic and comment. Congratulations!
What I really want toknow is how this sort of nonesense helps kids to read. I've just done a reading together workshop with my grandchildren at their school. The phonics they use are purely sound, nothing is written down. They're doing fine.
congratulations on your wedding anniversary. those words are amazing - my husband has dyslexia and spells things the way they sound - often i have to read what he writes out loud so i can figure out what it says and then it makes perfect sense. he always spells his brother, mike's name, miek, or tire, tier. have to also add in his maine accent which gives some words an extra syllable or an added 'r''. would be interesting, from an educational viewpoint, to know who and how they came up with those spellings.
Also, when we teach phonics we don't change the spellings, we just teach the most common way that each letter is usually pronounced and then we teach the sight words, the words that break the rules and you have to learn to recognize on sight, but it was 1969 when I started first grade, and even the books for the class had been translated into I.T.A. so there were a lot of Clifford the big red dog, curious george, danny and the dinosaur and textbooks in it. Thanks for all the comments and being my 365 friends @catsmeowb@tinac1@lellie@vposey@maggiemae
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. I help with math in the third grade classroom and sometimes struggle with the methods that are being taught today. However, when the teacher sends kids back to me for help, they learn the "old" way to add, subtract, multiply and divide. I think the kids seem to learn it my way! And the teacher doesn't complain that I am not following the "new" ways all the time!
First and foremost- Happy Anniversary!! Secondly, having home schooled reading the "old fashioned" way, this just seems utterly ridiculous to me. What happens when you get out into the real world and none of the words are spelled with ITA? Sounds like you had more common sense than the teacher who bought into this. I guess it didin't last though because I hadn't heard of it either.
happy anniversary, dixie. in high school i learned the international phoenetic alphabet which uses similar symbols. for so many years, when i'm taking notes, i would use the IPA symbols so no one could copy my hard-earned lecture notes, at the same time i knew how to pronounce and articulate when we had an open discussion.
What I really want toknow is how this sort of nonesense helps kids to read. I've just done a reading together workshop with my grandchildren at their school. The phonics they use are purely sound, nothing is written down. They're doing fine.
@catsmeowb @tinac1 @lellie @vposey @maggiemae