I get II when people don't use their headlights just because it's daytime. It's foggy here today, and I couldn't count the number of cars that did not have their lights on.
I'mma take it a step further and say that my truly irrational irritation is people not having headlights on any time they drive. I think if the car is moving, the lights should be on. I realize that many will probably disagree with me, but that's why it's irrational!
Statistically, it's safer to have your headlights on all the time. People see you better and are less likely to turn in front of you. I leave mine on all the time too. I hate automatic headlights.
I'm not going to admit how my husband spells medicine... But I love him!
Is this a male thing? H's spelling isn't that great and his reading out loud is atrocious. I don't know if he just doesn't take the time to actually reads the words correctly or if he just has trouble reading aloud. It's so bad that I'm worried about him reading to any LOs that we may have and giving them bad reading habits.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
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When my husband mixes up his dirty clothes with clean ones. The fact that he never picks up his clothes, ever. I will organize everything for him and two days later it's a fuckin mess.
Is this a male thing? H's spelling isn't that great and his reading out loud is atrocious. I don't know if he just doesn't take the time to actually reads the words correctly or if he just has trouble reading aloud. It's so bad that I'm worried about him reading to any LOs that we may have and giving them bad reading habits.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
Is this a male thing? H's spelling isn't that great and his reading out loud is atrocious. I don't know if he just doesn't take the time to actually reads the words correctly or if he just has trouble reading aloud. It's so bad that I'm worried about him reading to any LOs that we may have and giving them bad reading habits.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
I can't even fathom how a curriculum like that was ever approved to be taught in schools. I hope it was only introduced in his state and not nation wide. Though that would explain a lot.
When people won't look up from their phone when you are trying to have a conversation. On the same note it annoys me if someone calls me and then as soon as I answer the phone asks me to hold.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
WTAF?
It was horrible. I could not for the life of me learn how to read. Then in second grade they switched the curriculum back to the normal stuff, you know where each letter has its own sound and you sound out words to know what they mean. Unfortunately my husband is 2 years older than me so he was just screwed!
SheilaTheTank we went to school in CA and Berkeley is in CA, so it probably was a state thing. I bet they only got approval to try it out at a few districts. We also did this weird math that got the ax right after my year did it. It was word problems but getting the correct answer didnt matter, it was all about showing your work. So you could get an A on a test and not get a single answer correct.
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Is this a male thing? H's spelling isn't that great and his reading out loud is atrocious. I don't know if he just doesn't take the time to actually reads the words correctly or if he just has trouble reading aloud. It's so bad that I'm worried about him reading to any LOs that we may have and giving them bad reading habits.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
When I was a teaching assistant in a kindergarten classroom, they were using "sight" words. The kids weren't taught to sound words out. They had to see the word and immediately recognize it and say it. My first question was "what happens when they encounter a word they haven't been taught?" The teacher's reply? "They'll sound it out."
Is this a male thing? H's spelling isn't that great and his reading out loud is atrocious. I don't know if he just doesn't take the time to actually reads the words correctly or if he just has trouble reading aloud. It's so bad that I'm worried about him reading to any LOs that we may have and giving them bad reading habits.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
Actually, invented spelling is still encouraged in most curricula and is considered best practice for young children. Once phonics instruction begins in earnest, you can begin incorporating letter-sound knowledge and phonics rules knowledge into spelling/writing. But we still teach preservice teachers how to incorporate and encourage invented spelling for preschool and even kindergarten and first grade students. It does have to be followed up by rules-based spelling practice (and can be supported with teachers re-writing under the child's printing), though, which may have been missing from earlier implementations.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
When I was a teaching assistant in a kindergarten classroom, they were using "sight" words. The kids weren't taught to sound words out. They had to see the word and immediately recognize it and say it. My first question was "what happens when they encounter a word they haven't been taught?" The teacher's reply? "They'll sound it out."
Most of my parent's generation was taught to read using sight words.
See Dick. See Dick Run. Run Dick Run.
They can actually spell. We need to bring this back.
When people won't look up from their phone when you are trying to have a conversation. On the same note it annoys me if someone calls me and then as soon as I answer the phone asks me to hold.
I hang up on those people. Call me back when you can actually talk. People are fucking rude.
When I was a teaching assistant in a kindergarten classroom, they were using "sight" words. The kids weren't taught to sound words out. They had to see the word and immediately recognize it and say it. My first question was "what happens when they encounter a word they haven't been taught?" The teacher's reply? "They'll sound it out."
Most of my parent's generation was taught to read using sight words.
See Dick. See Dick Run. Run Dick Run.
They can actually spell. We need to bring this back.
They were teaching words like Antarctica. The teacher mis-spelled it when she was teaching them, too. If they were teaching them little sight words, I'd be all for it. We're talking about words with multiple syllables that you couldn't put into a coherent sentence in one lesson. I don't think they ever got to sentences.
Most of my parent's generation was taught to read using sight words.
See Dick. See Dick Run. Run Dick Run.
They can actually spell. We need to bring this back.
They were teaching words like Antarctica. The teacher mis-spelled it when she was teaching them, too. If they were teaching them little sight words, I'd be all for it. We're talking about words with multiple syllables that you couldn't put into a coherent sentence in one lesson. I don't think they ever got to sentences.
What grade were they in? I hope they weren't first and second graders.'
ETA: I just reread your original post saying they were in Kindergarten. Unless they're geniuses, that seems way too advanced.
I know with my husband his elementary education played a big role in it. Some grad school ass hats at Berkeley decided spelling is for suckers, so they came up with this "silly spelling" curriculum for elementary schools. Basically you look at a word and guess what it says, and whatever you guess is right enough. Same for spelling: School, Skewl, we know what you mean, its all good! Thank god enough teachers rebelled and that "program" was relatively short lived.
Actually, invented spelling is still encouraged in most curricula and is considered best practice for young children. Once phonics instruction begins in earnest, you can begin incorporating letter-sound knowledge and phonics rules knowledge into spelling/writing. But we still teach preservice teachers how to incorporate and encourage invented spelling for preschool and even kindergarten and first grade students. It does have to be followed up by rules-based spelling practice (and can be supported with teachers re-writing under the child's printing), though, which may have been missing from earlier implementations.
What is the point of invented spelling? My first thought is that it sounds like a waste of time. But I could just be ignorant to the subject matter. Real question from someone not involved with education.
They were teaching words like Antarctica. The teacher mis-spelled it when she was teaching them, too. If they were teaching them little sight words, I'd be all for it. We're talking about words with multiple syllables that you couldn't put into a coherent sentence in one lesson. I don't think they ever got to sentences.
What grade were they in? I hope they weren't first and second graders.
When I was a teaching assistant in a kindergarten classroom, they were using "sight" words. The kids weren't taught to sound words out. They had to see the word and immediately recognize it and say it. My first question was "what happens when they encounter a word they haven't been taught?" The teacher's reply? "They'll sound it out."
Most of my parent's generation was taught to read using sight words.
See Dick. See Dick Run. Run Dick Run.
They can actually spell. We need to bring this back.
I don't know enough about sight words, but it sounds like that supports correct spelling of words, since you need to be able to know what it says by looking at it and not having to sound it out. With silly spelling you could spell anything however you wanted and it was "correct". I cant image how shitty that was for those poor teachers! Seeing 13 different spellings for every word over two syllables... that would get old real fast!
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Actually, invented spelling is still encouraged in most curricula and is considered best practice for young children. Once phonics instruction begins in earnest, you can begin incorporating letter-sound knowledge and phonics rules knowledge into spelling/writing. But we still teach preservice teachers how to incorporate and encourage invented spelling for preschool and even kindergarten and first grade students. It does have to be followed up by rules-based spelling practice (and can be supported with teachers re-writing under the child's printing), though, which may have been missing from earlier implementations.
What is the point of invented spelling? My first thought is that it sounds like a waste of time. But I could just be ignorant to the subject matter. Real question from someone not involved with education.
A child spelling phonetically is starting to piece together that words are made up of sounds and letters represent those sounds. You don't want to encourage it or teach explicit spelling rules too early because say you teach a kinder too early that rough is spelled R-o-u-g-h. Instead of ruff. They associate gh with an f sound. Then they see the word ghost and think "fost". The goal is to teach them basic sound/letter association.
Edit:
If a kid ever explicitly asked me how to spell rough properly I would tell them but also explain that rough is a silly word and the gh are pretending to make a ffff sound this time. Then I'd ask what letter usually makes a fff sound to re-enforce letter/sound recognition.
It was horrible. I could not for the life of me learn how to read. Then in second grade they switched the curriculum back to the normal stuff, you know where each letter has its own sound and you sound out words to know what they mean. Unfortunately my husband is 2 years older than me so he was just screwed!
SheilaTheTank we went to school in CA and Berkeley is in CA, so it probably was a state thing. I bet they only got approval to try it out at a few districts. We also did this weird math that got the ax right after my year did it. It was word problems but getting the correct answer didnt matter, it was all about showing your work. So you could get an A on a test and not get a single answer correct.
That sounds like a participation trophy for school. Should not be a thing. Glad to hear they got rid of that.
Most of my parent's generation was taught to read using sight words.
See Dick. See Dick Run. Run Dick Run.
They can actually spell. We need to bring this back.
They were teaching words like Antarctica. The teacher mis-spelled it when she was teaching them, too. If they were teaching them little sight words, I'd be all for it. We're talking about words with multiple syllables that you couldn't put into a coherent sentence in one lesson. I don't think they ever got to sentences.
Then she wasn't teaching true sight words. Sight words are the little ones that you can't really sound out and are common: the, of, in, etc. I understand being able to recognize words after seeing them multiple times (sounding it out the first couple and then recognizing it) but Antartica is really advanced for Kindergarten.
They were teaching words like Antarctica. The teacher mis-spelled it when she was teaching them, too. If they were teaching them little sight words, I'd be all for it. We're talking about words with multiple syllables that you couldn't put into a coherent sentence in one lesson. I don't think they ever got to sentences.
Then she wasn't teaching true sight words. Sight words are the little ones that you can't really sound out and are common: the, of, in, etc. I understand being able to recognize words after seeing them multiple times (sounding it out the first couple and then recognizing it) but Antartica is really advanced for Kindergarten.
This was the state's curriculum. She was giving them the lessons straight out of the book. The rules (according to the book) was that they had to remember what the word was by the letters, and they weren't allowed to sound them out. The teachers just didn't teach sounding it out.
What is the point of invented spelling? My first thought is that it sounds like a waste of time. But I could just be ignorant to the subject matter. Real question from someone not involved with education.
A child spelling phonetically is starting to piece together that words are made up of sounds and letters represent those sounds. You don't want to encourage it or teach explicit spelling rules too early because say you teach a kinder too early that rough is spelled R-o-u-g-h. Instead of ruff. They associate gh with an f sound. Then they see the word ghost and think "fost". The goal is to teach them basic sound/letter association.
Thanks Ray and ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪, that makes sense, I can see how it could be implemented correctly. I think the issue was even in 3rd and 4th grade creative spelling was still acceptable, I am not an educator but at some point I am thinking you have to know photo and phone are spelled with a "ph", not an "f". Or maybe not! Maybe in Berkeley world pot can be spelled pawt and still get you high
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It was horrible. I could not for the life of me learn how to read. Then in second grade they switched the curriculum back to the normal stuff, you know where each letter has its own sound and you sound out words to know what they mean. Unfortunately my husband is 2 years older than me so he was just screwed!
SheilaTheTank we went to school in CA and Berkeley is in CA, so it probably was a state thing. I bet they only got approval to try it out at a few districts. We also did this weird math that got the ax right after my year did it. It was word problems but getting the correct answer didnt matter, it was all about showing your work. So you could get an A on a test and not get a single answer correct.
That sounds like a "participation trophy" for school. Should not be a thing. Glad to hear they got rid of that.
I completely disagree. I have high school students who have long, multi step physics or math word problems. There might be 10 steps to a question. The student does them all correct except for the nth one. Final answer is wrong and they get a zero on that question when in reality they did 90% of the work right. Giving a zero based on incorrect final answers in multi step problems is an inaccurate reflection of a students' understanding/ability IMO.
What is the point of invented spelling? My first thought is that it sounds like a waste of time. But I could just be ignorant to the subject matter. Real question from someone not involved with education.
A child spelling phonetically is starting to piece together that words are made up of sounds and letters represent those sounds. You don't want to encourage it or teach explicit spelling rules too early because say you teach a kinder too early that rough is spelled R-o-u-g-h. Instead of ruff. They associate gh with an f sound. Then they see the word ghost and think "fost". The goal is to teach them basic sound/letter association.
I guess I thought that certain words were avoided so that phonetic basics could be mastered without having to misspell any certain word in order to do so. I'm trying to remember how I was taught; not something I think about regularly, ha ha! I vaguely remember reading basic words in books, and when I came across words that were not phonetic, I was told that they were special words, or something to that effect.
Then she wasn't teaching true sight words. Sight words are the little ones that you can't really sound out and are common: the, of, in, etc. I understand being able to recognize words after seeing them multiple times (sounding it out the first couple and then recognizing it) but Antartica is really advanced for Kindergarten.
This was the state's curriculum. She was giving them the lessons straight out of the book. The rules (according to the book) was that they had to remember what the word was by the letters, and they weren't allowed to sound them out. The teachers just didn't teach sounding it out.
Irrational irritation: GIANT SIGGYS. Did ya wanna supersize it?
This is funny to me because I think yours is huge.
Uh-oh. On my screen it's 3 little images left to right in one line. I spent a loooooong time resizing all of them to fit in one line! Maybe everyone's looks normal to them because they formatted it on their screens? I'm throwing rocks from a glass house and didn't even know it?
ETA: I actually don't see any in this thread I would consider huge. But when there are 2 or more levels of images, that seems huge to me. Sorry if mine shows up that way for you? Ack! When I make my browser window really narrow, mine goest to 2 levels, but otherwise it's all on one...
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