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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About 30% of kids will learn to read no matter if they were taught properly. Studies are mostly consistent about this.

Its the other 70%  - a clear majority - that do need explicit instruction using proper methods - Science of Reading. [/quote]

Yes that's why we had only 30% literacy rate before Science of Reading was invented.

Right?

Right? [/quote]

The study just says explicit and systematic instruction not a specific curriculum. [/quote]

No. Multiple studies (science of reading has multiple independent studies, not just one) say multiple elements are needed in any viable curriculum and that Phonics needs to be front and center.

Mere systematic instruction is not sufficient - Calkins crap was systematic but it did not work. [/quote]

Interestingly even Natalie Wexler just had a post out about this - there's phonics and then there's treating 5 year olds like aspiring linguists and teaching them every single phenome until they are bored to tears. The point is supposed to be teaching the most common patterns in English and at some point kids will just start to get it, not making sure kids can nearly rattle off the International Phonetic Alphabet.

https://nataliewexler.substack.com/p/has-the-science-of-reading-gone-overboard[/quote]

Yes, but I do not think ANY metro DC school, public or private, is going overboard in the manner described. So it is NOT a real risk this year anyplace here.

And that 1985 report’s criticism was NOT valid for the vast majority of schools across the USA.  (The US is a big country, so it must have been true *some* place, but I cannot think of any place trying to teach “all the rules” back in 1985.).  That 1985 report — with its overly broad conclusions — is part of what was MISUSED to justify the Whole Language / Balanced Literacy crap we finally are getting rid of.  [/quote]

PP here. That's a good point. Certainly my kids' FCPS school that had been doing phonics for the past 2 years was only hitting on the most used phenomes.[/quote]

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