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It is taught in primary school, yeah. I remember learning pseudo terminology like "do-words" for "verbs" in first and second grade. Pre-school they try to teac
by kaetemi 3y ago
It is taught in primary school, yeah. I remember learning pseudo terminology like "do-words" for "verbs" in first and second grade.
Pre-school they try to teach "reading" letters nowadays, but then they get drilled in that "A is for apple" and now the shape A could mean the sound apple, and they have even less of a clue on what letters are.
(Even though in the 90s research already pointed out that reading should be taught with complete lowercase words instead of by letter picking.)
- hnlmorg 3y agoNo, they get taught terms like verb, digraph, as well as the difference in sounds between an and A. They don’t even teach uppercase letters until long after kids have mastered lower case. The whole “Annie Apple” thing went out of favour years ago. UK primary schools are very jargon heavy these days and phonics is all about teaching lower case letters. My wife is a primary school teacher, a few of my friends are teachers, and I have two kids in primary school. So this is a topic I’m very familiar with. What people forget is that the curriculum changes. It changes frequently. When I was at school the curriculum was very different to what it is like now. For example I actually learned the term “digraph” from my kids, not my own schooling. I mean, I always knew what digraphs and split digraphs were, but I never knew they were called digraphs.
- kaetemi 3y agoUK curriculum sounds good, then. Where I live a lot of the pre-school kids are excessively exposed to YouTube, which is primarily still drilling on the uppercase alphabet songs.