phonics
Queenslander! Queenslander! Queenslander! Did you watch the first State of Origin Game for the year? For Queenslanders, it was the result we all wanted, but as a ‘not frequent viewer of football’, it struck me as a rather ordinary game – dare I say, boring. When I raised this point with my brother, the knower […]
You know the rules! We all know the rules, right? You know the ones that are repeated, time and time again. “If your child does not know the word – sound it out!” “Learn these sight words.” Well let me tell you a story about a little girl named Sophie. Sophie was in Year One […]
My relationship with phonics, or the teaching of phonics (or is that phonetics??), is akin to one of those relationships. You know the one, where it is either in a state of pure blissfulness, or one of total despair. In this relationship, there never seems to be a happy medium, and every time I swear […]