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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the point of reading early if they don't understand?  It doesn't encourage reading for pleasure.  Better to wait until they learn because they are motivated.[/quote]

One good reason to teach decoding early (what some teacher here referred to as "deciphering letters" I believe?) is simply as a failsafe in case your student is going to encounter a teacher or reading program in the early grades that relies more upon the sight word method.

Kids who have good basic sound-symbol correspondences, and strong decoding skills, when they enter first grade, can still make excellent progress even if being taught to read using a sight word and repeated reading method, with some ancillary phonics thrown in.  Although, if the don't eventually encounter a teacher who teaches them how to decode multisyllable words, they will start to lose the plot around 4th grade and spelling could become a real problem.

However, kids who do not have a good grasp of decoding in 1st grade who are taught using a sight word method, and never encounter a more phonics based method (for example if they are referred for Leveled Literacy Intervention) in grades 1 and 2... are ripe for being diagnosed with reading difficulties.

Since you don't know what kind of teacher and reading program your child is going to get, it can't hurt to be sure they end Kindergarten with strong decoding skills.[/quote]

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