Sunday, August 10, 2008

Phonics Unleashed


Sent by a School-teacher friend of mine. Makes for really interesting reading!

"My five-year old students are learning to read. Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
'Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!'

I took a deep breath, then asked...'What did you call it?'

'It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!'

And so it does...