FROM A TEACHER: My five-year old students are learning to read.
Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, ‘Look at this! It’s a frickin’ elephant!’
I took a deep breath, then asked…’What did you call it?’ ‘It’s a frickin’ elephant! It says so on the picture!’ ;
And so it does… ‘ A f r i c a n Elephant ‘ Hooked on phonics! Ain’t it wonderful?