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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STMO999 on 18 November 2009, 14:58:47
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No, Pete, vowels.
My lad keeps going on about them. His teacher says a word must have a vowel and I say No. Rhythm, tryst, crypt etc.
Then I come across this:
http://www.phonicsontheweb.com/y-roles.php
ARRGGHH!
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Be careful of what 'official' info you find on the web, some portray opinions as fact. Try and find it from a more reliable source (Not wikipedia ffs)
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No, Pete, vowels.
My lad keeps going on about them. His teacher says a word must have a vowel and I say No. Rhythm, tryst, crypt etc.
Then I come across this:
http://www.phonicsontheweb.com/y-roles.php
ARRGGHH!
shy :y
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"Phonics" is what primary school teachers use to "educate" the hordes of illiterate yobs that go on to secondary school. >:(
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With a 6yr old I'm getting versed in the new teaching methods for maths and literacy and tbh, whilst some of it is a lot different than the ways I was taught (and I don't just mean that lsd used to mean something else besides acid back then!),I can see the logic in a lot of it including phonics. On the otherhand, whilst I accept that any language is a living thing and grows and mutates with various influences, surely that does not mean changing the basic rules. Personally I agree with others about the credability of claiming that "Y" can be genuinely classed as a vowel in the absence of "a e i o u" even though it may appear to perform that function in the word. :-/
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With a 6yr old I'm getting versed in the new teaching methods for maths and literacy and tbh, whilst some of it is a lot different than the ways I was taught (and I don't just mean that lsd used to mean something else besides acid back then!),I can see the logic in a lot of it including phonics. On the otherhand, whilst I accept that any language is a living thing and grows and mutates with various influences, surely that does not mean changing the basic rules. Personally I agree with others about the credability of claiming that "Y" can be genuinely classed as a vowel in the absence of "a e i o u" even though it may appear to perform that function in the word. :-/
I seem to remember, though from god knows where, that it was classed as a surrogate vowel. My lad is pretty quick on the uptake, so just accepts it and moves on. But I can't. ;D
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send him to school in Wales,they,ve never heard of vowels there. :y ;D ;D
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send him to school in Wales,they,ve never heard of vowels there. :y ;D ;D
OH DEBS!!!!!
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With a 6yr old I'm getting versed in the new teaching methods for maths and literacy and tbh, whilst some of it is a lot different than the ways I was taught (and I don't just mean that lsd used to mean something else besides acid back then!),I can see the logic in a lot of it including phonics. On the otherhand, whilst I accept that any language is a living thing and grows and mutates with various influences, surely that does not mean changing the basic rules. Personally I agree with others about the credability of claiming that "Y" can be genuinely classed as a vowel in the absence of "a e i o u" even though it may appear to perform that function in the word. :-/
Yes
Limited
Slip
Differential :y