At first I started teaching my kids with Zed until I realised that would be a disservice to them when they started school, so quickly changed to Zee for them until they were old enough to understand dialects and different versions. It was amusing listening to kids early on. They might not have understood difference between British and American English, but from an early age they would say a sentence to me using "settee" and then in the next sentence talk about the "sofa" to my wife.
Yes! Irritates the **** out of me. Had to get both my eldest two to say "zed" instead (and no, it's not just them)
challenge for the old farts: phonically sound Z. put it in a word at no time does Zed work. ergo patently you were badly taught back in the 1870s. phonically teaching sounds is a far better means to teach reading skills. CEE is not even phoncially correct. C is more like Ke as in the KE-AT sat on the Mat in fact the only place CEE works is with celtic which we all know is a silly way to say a KEeltic nation.
Phonetics alone is bad way of teaching English. Sure teaching Spanish phonetically works but English doesn't follow phonetics very well at all and almost every letter has multiple ways of pronouncing. Could be worse... Could be French where half the letters arnt pronounced at all.
this is true but actually it work. Ask whats this letter. kid says KAH ... C... not its a CEEE its a Kah sound. then you say read this and show a kid "cheslea are ****s" and they would say Kelsea and kunhts which is obviously fine expect for the two Victorians around here. the point is you teach a child gradually and don't say FFS the first time the muck it up. you are only starting with sound and simply words like Cat - KH-AT Mat. MUH AT SHAT... and so forth this of course is why at 6 my child is still learning to read. he can't read but she can memorise the entire book by rote and rabbit it back to you such is her genius. The education system of today is ****. they give her this book and they project it up on a screen in school and all phonically read it with teacher then they send it home and she just says it off word for word but then you cover the pics and she can't read the words... great.
thats the job of the next teacher along though. Muah- AT - EEE mate.. it is cool MUHATEE its how Australians talk.
Do you really want your children to grow.up to be Australian though? Drinking Fosters is almost as bad as drinking Carling.
yup. no issue there my matte was so parched his throat was disketted but he still would not drink carling. its kind of like that policeman on allo allo.
There are lots of different ways of teaching children to read, add a good teacher and most methods will be fine.
