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[quote=Anonymous][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]

OP here. Same. My preschooler is going learn how to read before K and I am going to have a meeting with the principal to confirm that he is placed with a teacher that is teaching using a phonics-based approach before he starts there (and going to say definitely NO to the K teacher my 2nd grader had).[/quote]

Same here. My daughter just turned 4 and is doing phonics and sight words in preschool right now. I think their sight word for this week is “me.” They also made a little book with words with the short “e” sound. Knowing how phonics has gone out of style in many schools, we specifically asked about it when we toured and were very relieved to hear that they use it.

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