Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn’t teach phonics until recently (2014).

Did anyone here learn phonics in school?

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    19 days ago

    I didn’t, for me it was “Ai, Bee, See, Dee, Eee, Eff, Jee” (except in my local language Danish). My children all learnt phonics in their U.K. school and it’s taught them to read 5x faster I’d say).

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    19 days ago

    I don’t remember ever hearing the word “phonics” except in commercials for Hooked on Phonics

    That said, the concept of phonics was absolutely part of how I learned to read, even though they never outright told us that that was what we were learning.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    Yes, I think so. I also did Hooked On Phonics with my grandfather before starting kindergarten which meant I could already read by the time we started school. This was in Texas in the early '90s.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    No, while it was known, it was not taught at my schools. My mother hated the entire concept so if they tried she’d likely have raised hell.

    Or just put us somewhere private instead. The much more sensible option lmfao

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      19 days ago

      She hated the concept of… teaching what sounds letters make? Was she a big proponent of cuing, or something else?

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        19 days ago

        She disliked a lot of the newer methods of teaching, so I’m guessing she preferred whatever was before that. The only one she named really was the New Math and I’m positive the New Math was pretty old by the time I was taught it. Have you ever watch Lehrer’s song New Math? That’s what I was taught, and if it was new then, it was ancient when I got to it!

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          19 days ago

          Oh phonics is the old one (although it’s making a comeback). The “new” one that they’ve been promoting for a couple decades (and have recently realized isn’t very good) is cueing, the one where you just show kids words and encourage them to use context clues to guess what they mean, and hope that they eventually learn to read by doing that. Phonics is the one where you start with letter (and letter group) sounds and learn to sound out words by reading out loud.

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            19 days ago

            It was new at the time! Or maybe. While the education I got was pretty good, it was eclectic. I only remember learning math. I picked up language before solid memories form. I also sort of have some brain uh. Problems.

            I liked moving the tens to the ones place. I think these days kids are doing some kind of cube thing? Seems neat!

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    19 days ago

    This comment section is reminding me its not normal for me to have maybe a dozen memories from under age 13. I have never even heard of phonics i just know i can read. Idk how i learned to. When i read i just like do it. Its the same as listening it just happens.

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    20 days ago

    I remember one time thinking about how my grandpa didn’t learn this and other related skills as a kid the same way I did in school and so we understand our same language a totally different way, where I saw parts of words, he just saw a whole word.

  • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️@slrpnk.net
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    20 days ago

    Since I come from a culture where our alphabet is actually consistent to how you pronounce things with no exceptions:

    no.

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      19 days ago

      Sure your country’s high grammar might be consistent, but the general day-to-day would have influences from other languages that can’t be so neatly categorised, and their pronounciation would differ from region to region

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      19 days ago

      Well technically that is phonics, you see a new word, as a learner, you know how to sound it out. Compared to the Whole Word learning method where somebody has to teach you what a word says. English is a nasty mess of both.

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    19 days ago

    No, but I remember overhearing one of my teachers saying it’s actually helpful. That was in the early 90s in California.