Did you learn phonics in school?

[mrjamegumb@lemmy.world]

No, but I remember seeing the TV ads for Hooked on Phonics

[davel@lemmy.ml]

Sesame Street taught me phonics.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

Back in the day, we learned phonics and syllables, and the general proper way to spell, pronounce and enunciate words.

Today people are lazy, and say shit like ROTFLMFAO, and expect everyone else to know what that letter salad means.

[dembosain@midwest.social]

[rebekahwsd@lemmy.world]

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

[altima_neo@lemmy.zip]

Hooked on phonics worked for me!

[altima_neo@lemmy.zip]

That's early 00s speak tho.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

I said back in the day. I was born in 1982, back when people Xeroxed their memes and knew how to spell out things like Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.

[ragnarokonline@programming.dev]

Yup. It’s phuckin awesome

[pip@slrpnk.net]

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

no.

[arghblarg@lemmy.ca]

Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters

...and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.

[confuser@lemmy.zip]

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.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

Ah, we actually had those purple mimeographs in gradeschool! Yep, the quality was shit, but it worked.

I just figured more people would remember Xerox. ‍️

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

A lot of kids were taught to read badly. There's this whole "whole word" and "cuing theory" approach to reading that doesn't work very well. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Apparently 65% of fourth graders aren't proficient at reading (as of the linked source from 2022)

[obsidianzed@lemmy.world]

Where is 'here?' I grew up in Midwest, US, and I absolutely learned phonics.

[davel@lemmy.ml]

stinky sheets of blurry purple letters

Hey now, the fresh ones smelled pretty good!

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Nah, it was mostly rote. But, I was reading pretty early, and my family did use a looser form of phonics with all of us. When it was a read-along, they'd point out words that didn't fit normal phonic rules, and explain a little. Read-alongs were super frequent for us. Daily, for most of my childhood, though I kinda "graduated" into doing the reading somewhere around 3rd grade for the second wave of cousins on one side of the family.

My mom's family runs high to dedicated readers, so it was always a thing where someone was reading something out loud to share a passage or whatever, even when it wasn't one of the adults reading to the kids as a group. And all our parents were super into reading to us individually too.

In kindergarten, it was straight into it, no phonics involved at all. But it was still mostly group based reading. First grade, it was individual work, with vocabulary, reading, and writing as parts of the language arts section of class. No phonics, and really no sounding things out at all. My first grade teacher was sweet as all get out, but did not play around with lessons.

[fondots@lemmy.world]

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.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.ml]

I just had the phonics monkey

[ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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.