Is it on parents to teach kids to read?

[Anonymous]

My kid is in K. The materials I'm seeing sent home from our public ES in the DMV don't seem to be too focused on phonics. At home my kid is doing well with Bob books and similar because they focus on sounds she has learned. At school it seems like it is about memorizing sight words rather than sounding out words and she doesn't seem do great with that. She gets stressed out when she can't sound things out. I am a little surprised because of all the talk about the science of reading.

[Anonymous]

Yes, for us we had to teach most of the basics.

[Anonymous]

I get your frustration. I was there for kinder too. Reading didn’t really click for either of my young for the grade kids until spring and the. for my second born really until first grade.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Because who bears the risk of it not going well? Get learn to read in 100 easy lessons. It's like 10 min a day.

[Anonymous]

In your case, sounds like yes. My kids ES did focus on phonics and he learned to read in kindergarten, as a young 5 year old. We did always read to and with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In your case, sounds like yes. My kids ES did focus on phonics and he learned to read in kindergarten, as a young 5 year old. We did always read to and with him.

Wait you read to your kids? Nobody told me to do that

[Anonymous]

Yes. I taught my kid anfter spending half of kindergarten just reading to him and waiting. I had him caught up by the end of the year and he is reading well now. My kid’s friend also struggled (same teacher, same lack of phonics curriculum) and they did not supplement by teaching phonics at home. The kid is still struggling to read simple decodable books in 1st grade.

[Anonymous]

I had to teach all of mine. Some were in private, some public, all had tons of reading leading up to K. I used an old version of Hooked on Phonics (cassette tapes!) that I bought from my SIL. After that they all took off and I didn’t have to intervene too much. Some needed a bit of pushing with chapter books, which meant I read a chapter aloud, and then they read a chapter.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Teach your kids to read.

[Anonymous]

Listen to the "Sold a Story" podcast. It's horrifying. You definitely need to take on reading instruction at home

[Anonymous]

Yes. I taught mine to read in pre-k so kindergarten this year has been mostly a helpful review. She started the year reading level d books and is still reading at that level but more fluently. She reads to me for 5-10 minutes a night then I read a more enjoyable book to her until she falls asleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, for us we had to teach most of the basics.

+1. Many many UMC people do this. We did it at age 3 and DC is a voracious reader today.
Some who do this will publicly deny doing it, but I am not sure why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen to the "Sold a Story" podcast. It's horrifying. You definitely need to take on reading instruction at home

+1. And “horrifying” is dead on, not hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Because who bears the risk of it not going well? Get learn to read in 100 easy lessons. It's like 10 min a day.

+1. We used this book as well. If you’re not happy with what you’re seeing, do it at home and avoid issues down the road.

[Anonymous]

We worked on it, but could not do it on our own.

Luckily, DD goes to a private school with a phonics-based program and goes to tutoring 3 times a week. She has dyslexia.

For the 10-20% of kids with dyslexia, parents can’t just teach them.