Learning to Read

[Ralph E. Powers]

My five-year old students are learning to read. Yesterday

one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, "Hey,

look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"

Startled, I took a deep breath, and then asked... "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"

And so it did...


'A f r i c a n Elephant'

Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?