Substitute teaching at the elementary level isn’t all that
difficult as far as subject matter goes. While there have been
occasions in the past where, once or twice, I didn’t feel
“educated” enough in English grammar to actually teach the
subject, those situations tended to be at the upper grade
levels. Teacher edition text books with the answers included and
teacher provided answer keys for any worksheets to be handed out
make my job fairly easy to handle. Any functioning adult should
be able to master 1st grade worksheets without any problem or
aid from an answer key. English grammar at a 1st grade level
shouldn’t be a problem…even for ME! So imagine my surprise and
frustration when confronted with the following worksheet
involving words with vowel “U”: (click the image to enlarge) The
instructions are simple enough. 1. Say each picture name. 2.
Listen to the sound of each letter 3. Print the word for the
picture name. All the words have either the short or long form
of the vowel “U” and this being 1st grad