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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Roughly 30% to 40% of students will learn to read regardless of which method (or even any method) is used. For the other 60-70% of students, approaches like Balanced Reading / Lucy Calkins / Whole Language simply do not work. Read "Sold a Story". Read the actual peer-reviewed studies with statistical controls. There is real data on this and the results are consistent - those BL / LC / WL approaches do not work for most kids.

Those of you whose kids did well in reading at whichever school almost certainly have kids in that first much smaller group. I am happy your experience was positive, but it does not change how bad some reading curricula happen to be. [/quote]

Can you explain why some kids learn to read regardless of the approach while others don’t (genuinely curious)? My child learned to read by the end of 1st grade, so I never had a reason to question the curriculum and I’m not even sure what approach they use. Fwiw we weren’t one of those families who are tried to teach reading on our own before K, we just waited for them to start school and learn from the teacher. I know there were kids in the class who required outside help though.[/quote]

I would assume neurotypical kids who are not on the autism spectrum nor have ADHD nor have dyslexia can learn alright via brute force (read by yourself a la Balanced Literacy BS), combined with exposure to large verbal or written vocabularies at home and school.

But everyone can learn to read, decide and recode (ie spell correctly) when systematically being taught and tested on phonics, roots/suffixes/prefixes, grammar, and sight words (the anomalies). [/quote]

The first paragraph is how things used to be viewed and assumed and that’s now pretty outdated. It’s not as simple or cut and dry. There were so many Dyslexic kids flagged in the United States compared to others places in the world and they wanted to figure out why - when you have kids guess words when they learn to read instead of decoding it only works for so long. In fact, if you start with the science of reading approach the majority of kids can learn this way. Kids are really smart and can memorize thousands of words but if they’re not taught how to decode words it’s a huge issue. This reading thing is also not just isolated to 1st and 2nd grade -  it can pop up in middle school when they don’t have the tools to decode words. They’ve now studied how the brain words in regards to reading - and it’s old fashioned decoding, phonics- tapping and sounding words out. It is not guessing or cueing words. [/quote]

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