I found a 1959 pack of phonics flash cards at a garage sale a few years ago and just rediscovered them in my craft pit room. I particularly love the test sheet and it has been perfect for a project I wanted to do requiring line drawings that are well beyond my drawing ability.
The funniest part is some of the images/words they use. I don't think you see pipe (as in the smoking kind) or gun as words on 2009 phonics quizzes.
And what is that thing to the left of the word "keep"? I was seriously stumped by the test.
Stay tuned tomorrow for what I did with the images (I gotta drag it out since I really am trying to post every day and all I did today was clean and cook--nothing especially blogworthy. Although, that reminds me that I am enjoying Swistle's cleaning posts and tweets. Maybe I can blog about my laundry pile or dustbunnies).
P.S. Where is the symbol for cents found? Why isn't it on my keyboard somewhere?
I don't have a cents sign either. I do lowercase C (25c) or I do it in dollars ($.25).
Is that sheet with "keep" on it a matching thing? Like, I see the word "owl" next to a pile of coins, so either someone's on drugs or we might need to see the whole sheet to solve the problem of "What the froly frell is that thing??"
Posted by: Swistle | September 08, 2009 at 06:24 AM
Ha ha! Never mind! I'm looking at the full sheets and I have NO IDEA what's going on!
Posted by: Swistle | September 08, 2009 at 06:26 AM
Melissa, the strange thing next to "keep" is an old screw-in fuse (pre circuit breakers). -Mr. H
Posted by: Mr. H | September 08, 2009 at 06:38 AM
I think it is a fuse. love dad
Posted by: Mark | September 08, 2009 at 07:23 AM
That's funny! In my other life I work as a speech pathologist, and some older versions of the tests we use have guns and pipes, and records and typewriters. On the next revision they're going to have to get rid of the wired telephones and the ancient-looking CRT computers!
Posted by: Kim | September 09, 2009 at 06:06 AM