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Scottish people- how is phonics taught in Scotland?

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Bigearringsbigsmile · 03/12/2024 18:33

Following on from the shaun the sheep thread.
In England, we used to use Letters and Sounds and now schoold use a variety of different schemes. All have standard pronunciation of phonemes as part of the scheme. Letters and sounds had adjustments for regional variations like flat vowels. Bath, grass etc

I am really interested in learning how it taught in Scotland. Do you have different schemes to England? Are the phonemes different to allow for rhoticity?

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WearyAuldWumman · 04/12/2024 23:12

GranPepper · 03/12/2024 19:00

Well, I don't know anybody that isn't a Scot who can say Loch correctly 😅. It isn't Lock. It isn't Lake. We Scots learn how to sound out words from our parents/grandparents (including rhotic R). Then we learn words from sounds at school. People in other countries learn in their own way, and that's fine.

Slavs can manage it. Scots have an easier time than English students when it comes to learning to pronounce Russian.

Spacedoody · 05/12/2024 00:05

@Talulahalula

Yes, that's because Hairy MacLarey is written by Lynley Dodd who is from New Zealand. The books are not written by a Scottish author.

Needanewname42 · 05/12/2024 01:05

Spacedoody · 05/12/2024 00:05

@Talulahalula

Yes, that's because Hairy MacLarey is written by Lynley Dodd who is from New Zealand. The books are not written by a Scottish author.

Thanks for that info. I only bought one or two and didn't like them they just never sounded right to me

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Talulahalula · 05/12/2024 21:38

Spacedoody · 05/12/2024 00:05

@Talulahalula

Yes, that's because Hairy MacLarey is written by Lynley Dodd who is from New Zealand. The books are not written by a Scottish author.

That makes sense, then. Thanks.

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