jolly fecking phonics...... anybody else object? throw the R away now?

[strangefruit]

today dd came home with her jolly phonics sound action

a picture of a child opening her mouth for a dentist the sound the child is making is ah

this is for the letters ar,

as in pARk

dARk

stAR

I have always pronounced this as I see it, yes I am scottish, so it is arrrrrrr as in

ARse not AHsss

am I being unreasonable or is this rp? I want my child to say AR not ah when she sees woRds with an R in them

I want to tell the jolly phonics lot where to stick there sound actions right up there AHsses

I find the action for 'u' weirdly inappropriate...putting up an invisible umbrella really doesn't look like putting up an umbrella...

It works so well though. And those are the 'standard' sounds for reading and writing. Obviously they'll be changed by accent, so I'd hope people teaching in different regions would adapt them if the region they are teaching in pronounces them completely differently. Do you live in Scotland and is dd Scottish or are you just Scottish?

All of those sound the same to me: ar, park, ah, arse.

I was born in the West Midlands and have southern parents.

Ka works for car in eastern New England in the United States, but most of our early settlers came from East Anglia and Norfolk

The OP's DD has probably overcome any resultant speech issues in the 10 years since this thread was started.

Another bloody zombie thing... I was about to say "who is still teaching Jolly bloody Phonics?!!?"

My kids school still teaches it but I live in Ireland . Is it not taught in Britain anymore?