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[quote=Anonymous]Montessori preschool taught them. I cam describe the general flow, although I'm surely omitting some things.

They start with phonemic awareness, teaching kids to break words into sounds orally. Like "cat" into "Kuh aah tuh."  This can start way before any introduction to letters.

They use big sandpaper letters to learn the individual letter sounds.

Moveable alphabet to form simple phonetic CVC, CVCC, CCVC words. This is really writing, not reading. It's not handwriting though because the letters are premade and the kids only arrange them.

Phonetic readers, like Bob Books.

Introduce letter combinations into moveable alphabet work ("sh" "th").

More complex phonetic readers.

Sight words.

More complex moveable alphabet and more complex readers, including sight words, sentences, punctuation.

Kids read to a teacher, to a friend, or to themselves.

Handwriting is introduced pretty late in the sequence, although they do a lot of pre-handwriting things to build fine motor skills and grip for handwriting. [/quote]

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