#Kids Phonics (IN)

[ssruis]

B4 I actually watched stories and was just reading the events on the god forsaken fandom wiki I was pronouncing emu/nene as eemu/neenee in my head… I could say “I don’t know Japanese” as a reason but English also favors the [e] pronunciation of “e” vs [i] (i.e bed vs see) in situations like this. My excuse for emu is the bird but idk what happened with nene. I think im just stupid. Muscle memory phonics failed me. Child left behind. Girl you know how words like emulsify and never/vender are pronounced.

[marsixm]

does anyone else feel like people freaking out about kids having "brainrot" are like, being way too fucking alarmist over kids like. making meme and pop culture references. like the not being able to read stuff is scary... knowing what skibidi toilet is isnt...

[arconinternet]

The Learning Treehouse - five tapes plus bloopers (Videos, 1995/1996)

Starring the Schiffelly Puppets. You can watch them here.

[picturebookshelf]

Pinkalicious: School Rules! (2010)

Story and Art: Victoria Kann

[girderednerve]

can i be mean for a second. it's great that people care & are thinking seriously about literacy education but i think it's sort of embarrassing that everyone's main source is a podcast. also a podcast cannot possibly make you an expert in the complicated social, developmental, & pedagogical questions of reading education. i really think a lot of what's happened is that it's compelling to imagine that we can resolve a profound social problem with a skill that many of us learned as young children (phonics!). in my experience, this narrative has specifically conservative appeal. none of this to say that i think we should toss out every neuropsych paper about literacy acquisition or whatever, but i do insist that there's a difference between the 'science of reading' as an evolving body of knowledge & practice and the (contentious & also evolving, lol) popular idea of what literacy education at any level ought to look like. also, um, did they ever fix that replication crisis, or

[gaybd1]

You ever sub for a class and you’re like who tf is your normal teacher

Show and tell in kindergarten, one girl brings like her nail painting set and so some girls are playing with some of the nail stickers. They want to share with me too so I take them. Some of the boys are looking on from across the room and one of them is like “boys can do that??” and I’m like “well I think people should do whatever makes them happy, don’t you?” and suddenly they all go rushing over

like I’m so sorry your normal teacher doesn’t seem to let you explore life outside of rigid gender roles?? At a school that is supposed to be super progressive about all that??

[sentijazz]

This here is my sentinjazz fankid: Whistle

(later becomes Phonic Prime)

Whistle is very witty, loves to trick others, and being an all around menace. Sentinel spoiled him too much and Jazz couldn’t bring himself to say no in most scenarios. Whistle got his name from his loud/high pitch audio powers.

He later becomes Phonic Prime and humbles out SO MUCH. A complete 180 into a polite and modest young man <3 keeping his tricky mind of course

And this is his loyal pet while growing up: Bell

her tail is an antenna that has a direct link to Whistle/Phonic Prime. Because they’re BEST FRIENDS :D

[alpineig]

sometimes you watch a video essay and it is so bad that you instantly go into "I am critically watching this" and you thank the English teachers that actually taught you how to read critically and curse the "the curtains are just blue" people

[freecatcollection]

[blurbofparadise]

I was not informed that the college reading level abilities in early elementary school were going to be SEVERELY offset by the apparently permanent 2nd grade level of reading the room in adulthood.

[wokestonecraft]

The more I learn about the “reading wars,” the more baffled I am. I’ve been listening to the “Sold a Story” podcast, and I do not understand how ditching phonics ever became a thing. That is how our language functions, we have an alphabet for a REASON. Only being able to read prior memorized words is so constraining. You should be using context clues for the *meanings* of words, not to take a wild stab at what the word might be. No wonder illiteracy has risen, this screws over kids so badly.

[princehendir]

I'm not going to get mad about the post about teaching kids to read I have better things to do.

[arconinternet]

Sound It Out Land: A Musical Adventure in Reading! Phonics 1 (Video, 99V, 1993)

You can watch this educational VHS tape here.

Based on the company's CD-ROM, which you can download (click 'SHOW ALL' under 'DOWNLAOD OPTIONS' to find .bin and .cue files) if you have emulation know-how here.

[picturebookshelf]

Hello Kitty: Hide-and-Seek (2007)

Story: Quinlan B. Lee -- Art: Sachiho Hino

[podddcasttt]

being a children's librarian is fun because you get to look forward to not having to answer questions about the printer or the mysteries of google drive like adult services does, but then you get asked questions about phonics and AR reading levels and you realize that there are mysteries the depths of which you can never fathom but you have to try because there is a very stressed parent right in front of you

[menlove]

lots of talk rn about how fucked up the US education system is rn (like "8th graders not knowing the first 7 letters of the alphabet regardless of income/ability" fucked up) w lots of reasons given like covid, lack of parent engagement, "kids these days being lazy", etc. and while i definitely think at least the first two have impact on the situation

mostly i'm just like....... all of these things people are pointing out is problems that low SES teachers & students have been pointing out for decades. these are problems that students have been struggling with for decades in low SES schools. and now that it's applying to rich white kids too people are talking about it. but it has always been a fundamental flaw and issue in our schooling system. and the biggest issue here is, imo, that we are living in late stage capitalism & our school system was NOT built to handle a single thing going on rn. just like it wasn't built for lower-class students to thrive. the problem is now most households and schools are facing the same issues these lower SES households and schools have always faced.

but it's just a little wild bc for years the concerns and problems that teachers and students in lower SES schools have brought up have been routinely ignored and brushed aside and these students just got pushed along and the schools kept getting less funding and no one bothered to try and fix it so now we have a crisis bc it's happening everywhere