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Wanneer vanaf klas 4 een begin wordt gemaakt met schrijven en lezen, kom je uiteraard ook een keer bij het alfabet, b.v. ‘ergens in klas 5 of zelfs 6’.
Eerst uit het hoofd leren – het is een flink rijm – geeft later steun aan de uitspraak.
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Roy Wilkenson, 1978
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THE ALPHABET
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The Alphabet
Begins with A
But it’s often pronounced
Another wav.
It’s ah in father,
It’s ay in cake;
In a word like apple
A short a you make.
B is a sound
To shut something in,
Like bottle or boot.
Basket or bin;
Bag, box or body, —
Now do you see
How being shut in
Belongs to B.
C is in cellar,
In centre and cell,
In certain and cease,
In city as well.
Before a, o and u
The sound is hard.
As in coat and colour,
Cuddle and card.
D is a letter
You will know at once.
It’s for door and day.
And also for dunce.
It’s for dragon and donkey,
Din, dinner and dew,
For dormouse and deer
And dog and duck too.
E is for Eel, —
A sort of fish.
It’s supposed to be
A tasty dish.
E is also in bell,
But short you see.
In Elephant too
Is the letter E.
F is for fire,
Flight and fly.
F shoots and sparkles
And rushes by.
F is in fear,
In fight and in fish,
In flow and in flower
And it goes with a swish.
G is for garden,
Gale and gate.
Gap and gabble.
Golf and great.
Sometimes it’s soft —
Before i and e,
Like giant and ginger
George and gee-gee.
H is a strange sound
And it needs some puff.
It’s in hurricane and heaven,
In howling and huff.
It’s in hop and happy,
With s in shell,
To sound the H properly
You need to breathe well.
I is a vowel.
Long as in ride.
Short as in insect,
Or you have both in inside.
I is also a word
Which you use when you say
“This person is me.
I’m here today”.
J is for jam
To spread on your bread,
But sometimes it gets
On your jaw instead.
Two children there were
Who went up a hill.
Both names start with J
You know — Jack and Jill.
K goes off bang.
It’s in kiss and kick,
Kitchen and keeper.
It’s at the end of quick.
K is in kettle.
Kipper and kite,
But sometimes it’s modest.
As in know and knight.
L is a lovely
Opening out sound.
It spreads itself out
To the world around.
It’s in leaf and in life,
In laughter and love,
In light and in lark,
Singing high above.
M is a meeting.
It’s a mixture you’ll find.
It’s in muddle and mud,
Madness and mind.
It’s in making and man,
Mountain and mere.
And needs to be spoken
Firmly and clear.
N is a sound
Which quietly glides.
Wherever it is,
It simply slides.
“No” is the thing
Which N wants to say.
It’s in never and not,
Nothing and nay.
If there’s something you want,
O is the sound.
It is short or long,
But written, quite round.
It’s in own and got,
Though sometimes blurred
As in story and love,
To say nothing of word.
P is for pilgrim,
Peacock and pry,
Poodle and pippin,
Plum pudding and pie,
It’s in paddle and pumpkin,
aper and pay,
Parrot and peewit.
Ponder and pray.
Q is in quiet,
Question and queer.
It’s also in quarrel
But we don’t like that here.
Q has a friend,
The letter U.
WYou’ll find the u too.
R is a rollicking
Roisterous sound.
You find it rolling
And racing around.
But strange to relate,
It’s name rhymes with car,
No rolling nor rrrrrring.
It’s just called Ah.
S has some magic.
It’s in still and sly,
In sun and in storm,
In snake gliding by.
It’s in sizzle and soft,
In slipper and smoked,
In sniffing and sneezing,
Through getting soaked.
T is for tree,
For top and for try.
Attaining high standards
Means aiming high.
T is for teacher,
Standing there, —
Too often talking
To the empty air.
U is a sound
Which is all squeezed in.
It’s pronounced like you
And it looks very thin.
It’s in ugly and under,
Upright and dull,
Lugubrious, useful,
Butter and buil.
V is a valley.
Vale or view.
It’s in village and voice
And in velvet too.
It’s in verb and in verse,
Vanish and vat.
It’s an upside-down
Dunce’s hat.
W is in water,
Wave and why,
In walk and in walrus.
Ducks waddle by.
It’s in wobble and wiggle,
n weather and woo.
The name is not W:
It is called double u.
This cross is an X.
Eks it says.
You write it in Xmas
And in X-rays.
Not many words
Begin with an X
But they end with it often,
Like fox, fix and flex.
There is also a letter
Which rhymes with eye,
Spoken y or short i,
But it’s called a wye.
It’s in yellow and you,
At the end of hairy,
In young and in year,
And also in fairy.
One more to learn,
Zed is it’s name.
You find it in Zebra,
Who’s not very tame.
Z is for Zulu,
Zany and zoo.
It’s the last of the letters,
A happy thought too.
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