Re: "Old Thing"
Posted: 25 Dec 2017, 11:51
Being a child of the 'progressive' 1970s, a lot of my teaching was different and sometimes experimental. We learned to read phonetically - which I think is the best way - said the alphabet the same way - 'ah, bu, cu, du, eh, fu, gu, hu etc - and although we briefly learned verbs, nouns, adjectives, I think I only remember one or two lessons on them as most. We also learned how to lay out speech and how to lay out a play script, aged about 9 or 10.
Being creative, technical stuff often bored me - I wanted to write stories, not learn about verbs - and the same tended to go for learning to spell. I was never any good in the weekly spelling test we had...would always get around 12 or 14 out of 20...but then the attitude of most teachers I had in the 1970's was 'get the story down - don't worry about spelling - you can correct it later!'
Our school had several very good creative writing teachers, and I was much more inspired by them than by anyone into the technicalities!
Being creative, technical stuff often bored me - I wanted to write stories, not learn about verbs - and the same tended to go for learning to spell. I was never any good in the weekly spelling test we had...would always get around 12 or 14 out of 20...but then the attitude of most teachers I had in the 1970's was 'get the story down - don't worry about spelling - you can correct it later!'
Our school had several very good creative writing teachers, and I was much more inspired by them than by anyone into the technicalities!