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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope she's really, actually walking it back and not just putting lipstick on a pig. After all, Fairfax says it teaches "blended literacy," which is really just the cueing of Calkins with a tiny bit of phonics smattered around the edges.

I too am still working to undo damage done by this way for a child. I feel stressed to teach a preschooler to learn to read so that she won't even try to use the stupid picture/first letter cues. It's not good.[/quote]

NP. I used some phonics readers to teach my kids to read in the spring and summer before kindergarten. One picked it up in 2 weeks, one in two months. And then both were reading chapter books in K and 1st.

For a long time, I had mixed feelings about whether it was necessary or a good idea, or whether I should have waited and let their teachers teach them. When my younger DC came home and told me that his 1st grade teacher said that good readers look at the pictures, I knew that I had done the right thing. [/quote]

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