Friday, October 5, 2007

How do you teach when you have an accent?

Each week Jake has a spelling test. We go over the words everyday after school. I realized yesterday as I was reading the words to him, that my North Jersey accent doesn't really help him rhyme words correctly.

Example..I do not pronounce dog and log the same way. I also do not pronounce had and bad the same way. Jake actually pointed out that I said 'bad' incorrectly. Maybe to him it's incorrect, but it sounds perfectly okay to me! :)

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Wait a freaking minute. Dog and log do NOT rhyme. I don't have an accent and I know they don't rhyme!!

Jeannine said...

In some places they do rhyme, but not here in NJ!!! :)