O. T. but cute, I thought

Jake is 5 and learning to read.
He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look
Mama! It's a frickin' Cat!"
Deep breath .. "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

LOL
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Granby wrote:
Jake is 5 and learning to read.
He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look
Mama! It's a frickin' Cat!"
Deep breath .. "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:58:49 -0600, Granby wrote:


Jake is 5 and learning to read.
He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look Mama! It's a
frickin' Cat!"
Deep breath .. "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!" and so it does
.. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

Back in the past somewhere, there was a TV show called "Kids say the
darndest things". I believe Art Linkleiter hosted it. It was funny. I
have a few special quotes from when my son was little. He hates me to
tell them now. MLB

Granby wrote:

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

As an aside to the above story, I've always been a bit puzzled by
all the hoopla over "Hooked on Phonics". Sometime around 15 or 20
years ago, I started seeing ads for it on TV, which touted it as
this revolutionary new way to teach kids to read. The way it was
portrayed in the ads, it looked to me like "Phonics" was just teaching
kids the sound of each letter, and then letting them learn to read
by sounding out new words.

This was something new?? I learned to read in exactly that way in
the early 1960s. Was my town way ahead of its time or something? Were
they sitting on a well-kept secret that wasn't introduced to the
wider public until the 1980s?

I can't even imagine any different way to learn how to read. Can
anyone shed light on this?

Joyce
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:12:08 +0000, bastXXXette wrote:

Granby wrote:

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!" and so it does
.. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

As an aside to the above story, I've always been a bit puzzled by all the
hoopla over "Hooked on Phonics". Sometime around 15 or 20 years ago, I
started seeing ads for it on TV, which touted it as this revolutionary new
way to teach kids to read. The way it was portrayed in the ads, it looked
to me like "Phonics" was just teaching kids the sound of each letter, and
then letting them learn to read by sounding out new words.

This was something new?? I learned to read in exactly that way in the
early 1960s. Was my town way ahead of its time or something? Were they
sitting on a well-kept secret that wasn't introduced to the wider public
until the 1980s?

I can't even imagine any different way to learn how to read. Can anyone
shed light on this?

Joyce


I, too, learned to read that way decades before the 60s. The old, old
method was "sound it out". MLB

wrote in message
...
Granby wrote:

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

As an aside to the above story, I've always been a bit puzzled by
all the hoopla over "Hooked on Phonics". Sometime around 15 or 20
years ago, I started seeing ads for it on TV, which touted it as
this revolutionary new way to teach kids to read. The way it was
portrayed in the ads, it looked to me like "Phonics" was just teaching
kids the sound of each letter, and then letting them learn to read
by sounding out new words.

This was something new?? I learned to read in exactly that way in
the early 1960s. Was my town way ahead of its time or something? Were
they sitting on a well-kept secret that wasn't introduced to the
wider public until the 1980s?

I can't even imagine any different way to learn how to read. Can
anyone shed light on this?

Joyce

Phonics was the way reading was taught when I was in school, too (1940s).
However, somewhere along the line, someone came up with the "See and Say"
system of teaching reading, where children were supposed to recognize the
shape of a whole word, rather than sounding it out. That was prevalent for
a number of years, but I think phonics is once again the accepted method of
teaching reading. However, I can't be completely sure of this, since I
haven't had a child in school for decades, and I have no grandchildren.

Joy

"Granby" wrote in :


Jake is 5 and learning to read.
He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look
Mama! It's a frickin' Cat!"
Deep breath .. "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?



There goes my keyboard!

Andy

as most of you said, it is the rediscovered way of teaching. I sit and
listen to my seven year old granddaughter sound out words like this and have
all I can do not to laugh. It is like so many things, old being new again.
"Joy" wrote in message
...
wrote in message
...
Granby wrote:

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

As an aside to the above story, I've always been a bit puzzled by
all the hoopla over "Hooked on Phonics". Sometime around 15 or 20
years ago, I started seeing ads for it on TV, which touted it as
this revolutionary new way to teach kids to read. The way it was
portrayed in the ads, it looked to me like "Phonics" was just teaching
kids the sound of each letter, and then letting them learn to read
by sounding out new words.

This was something new?? I learned to read in exactly that way in
the early 1960s. Was my town way ahead of its time or something? Were
they sitting on a well-kept secret that wasn't introduced to the
wider public until the 1980s?

I can't even imagine any different way to learn how to read. Can
anyone shed light on this?

Joyce

Phonics was the way reading was taught when I was in school, too (1940s).
However, somewhere along the line, someone came up with the "See and Say"
system of teaching reading, where children were supposed to recognize the
shape of a whole word, rather than sounding it out. That was prevalent
for a number of years, but I think phonics is once again the accepted
method of teaching reading. However, I can't be completely sure of this,
since I haven't had a child in school for decades, and I have no
grandchildren.

Joy

yeah but you could tell US, we wouldn't let the word out!
"mlbriggs" wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:58:49 -0600, Granby wrote:


Jake is 5 and learning to read.
He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look Mama! It's a
frickin' Cat!"
Deep breath .. "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!" and so it does
.. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

Back in the past somewhere, there was a TV show called "Kids say the
darndest things". I believe Art Linkleiter hosted it. It was funny. I
have a few special quotes from when my son was little. He hates me to
tell them now. MLB

wrote:

Granby wrote:

"It's a frickin' Cat, Mama! It says so on the picture!"
and so it does .. " A f r i c a n Cat "

Hooked on phonics!!! Ain't it wonderful?

As an aside to the above story, I've always been a bit puzzled by
all the hoopla over "Hooked on Phonics". Sometime around 15 or 20
years ago, I started seeing ads for it on TV, which touted it as
this revolutionary new way to teach kids to read. The way it was
portrayed in the ads, it looked to me like "Phonics" was just teaching
kids the sound of each letter, and then letting them learn to read
by sounding out new words.

This was something new?? I learned to read in exactly that way in
the early 1960s.

And I in the mid 1930's!!!!! (The difference is, we were
also taught spelling.) ;-)