Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn’t teach phonics until recently (2014).
Did anyone here learn phonics in school?
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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.
I just had the phonics monkey
Yes, from early 70s onward.
noʊ, aɪ doʊnt θɪŋk aɪ dɪd.
stop using ipa
TANGO HOTEL ALFA TANGO INDIA PAPA ALFA INDIA SIERRA SIERRA TANGO INDIA LIMA LIMA BRAVO ECHO TANGO TANGO ECHO ROMEO TANGO HOTEL ALFA NOVEMBER TANGO HOTEL INDIA SIERRA INDIA PAPA ALFA
meɪk mi.
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).
Long after I learned to read. At which point it was just confusing since so many words can’t be ‘sounded out’.
I learned to read alongside learning to speak, learned it like a language, not like a code, I didn’t really sound things out consciously, it went in the other direction, I recognized words. So by 3 years I could read quite well, and did come by that path to an understanding that the individual letters had sounds.
Like if you’ve ever seen a little kid learning to write, they start with just scribbles then lines of scribbles then clumps of “letters” then actual words with letters. That is sort of the process I had - books held stories, then I saw there was writing, then my mom read the stories while pointing to the words, then I pretended I could read by memorizing the book, but then just jumped to being able to read. Anything. Like first book was “bears on wheels” but second book was Grendel, and I could read the newspaper, literally think I could understand written language more than spoken.
So anyway - yes was taught phonics but not taught to read with phonics.
Yes, my elementary school explicitly used it.
No, but I remember seeing the TV ads for Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on phonics worked for me!
1-800-ABC-DEFG
Nope. Never even heard of it until recently, in the context of kids leaving school unable to read.
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.
No, but I remember overhearing one of my teachers saying it’s actually helpful. That was in the early 90s in California.
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Since I come from a culture where our alphabet is actually consistent to how you pronounce things with no exceptions:
no.
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
We do, and even those have rules. Not phonetic rules though
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.
Where is ‘here?’ I grew up in Midwest, US, and I absolutely learned phonics.
What decade though. I did too, but it was the 1980s.
They got rid of it in many outpaces as a reaction to the Bush admin saying phonics works and arranging to mandate it.
It was probably the only thing Bush was right about, but common core was not the way to implement it.
I learned on the 90s.
Yup this didn’t start till after the 2000
election.
