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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who taught your kid to read - the sounds, the blends, the combos, the practice. 
Preschool, you, an IPad app, or your independent school teacher (and if so what grade)?

We had play based pk and K, lots of specials for grade 1, and no homework policies school so have never seen a word list or literacy pack come home for either of our kids. Now we feel naive since they still don’t know concepts or spelling and I wonder what fell through the cracks here. [/quote]

Certainly alphabet memorization and reading at school helps at pk/k levels. But if you read to your kids as parents (almost) every night as toddlers thru pre-k they’ll learn almost by osmosis. DC1 got about 3-5 Dr. Seuss books a night from age 2-3 on and was reading independently by 4 / 4-1/2. DC2 was less interested in reading and being read to and started closer to 5 / 5-1/2, which seemed fine. [/quote]

Just wanted to sat that this is not true for many kids. I am both a parent, a kindergarten teacher, and a reading specialist. While it certainly is very important to read to your child every night (and model reading habits at home), it is not learned through "osmosis" by all or even many kids. Many children need much more explicit teaching in letter sounds, spelling patterns, sight word recognition, comprehension, etc. Learning to read is very complex and it is naive to think every child can learn to read easily as long as they have parents who read to them.[/quote]

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