Primary literacy ...split digraphs

Glad its not just me Bluebell ?

The first time I heard it was from my 5 year old gd. You live and learn.

3 degrees and retired but have managed quite well without this knowledge so far. Will now google it and enlighten myself.

Enlightened

Bluebell, cannot wholly agree re Maths teaching now. Some of it found less than helpful, "chunking" in division for example. However open number lines, learning to do calculations on paper the way you do them in your head by adding the tens, then the units and adding both together and learning number bonds to 10 and 20 all helped me to understand the way numbers work. I was always "hopeless at sums" but was able to teach this sort of thing with confidence and I hope imparted that to those who struggled. Whereas carrying and borrowing and all that stuff we learnt in the fifties, just eluded me. Those who are natural number crunchers may not need this, the dysnumerate amongst us need all the help we can get I believe.

Here's another one to add to the list..,,my dgc have been using diacritical marking since around P3 / age 7!!

What ? Bemused here

Is a split diagraph ( Mr Kindle wants to add it to my dictionary so he hasn't heard of it) what I used to teach as Magic E? What is wrong with appealing to a 5 /6 year old's imagination?

Diacritical marking uses symbols to identify the phonemes present in a word

That made me laugh, annsixty. I don't remember this phrase ever being mentioned when I was at school, seemed to have managed ok without it though. Sometimes when teaching( although I am not, and never have been a teacher). I think too much information just adds to confusion, and detracts from the learning process as a whole.

I stand back now and wait for the tirade coming at me in following posts

Now remember you are new......don't expect a tirade of criticism. Most of us are pretty.friendly.

Oh dear. I have just realised that I did a year of phonetics at Leeds as part of my English course and although we had to do the markings i never knew what they were called.

Also I have heard of degree level stuff going down to sixth form, even to GCSE but at age 7!

Oh dear GS1 has been having such a lovely summer holiday away from all this stuff. I don't think he realises how near next term is.

I am not new. I am 63

Sorry muddled you up with someone else.