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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They didn't. It's a urban myth propagated by companies selling programs to "fix" dyslexia. Your school teaches phonics. [/quote] Some actually don’t. I’m a teacher and I’ve seen schools that don’t. Part of the problem is Lucy Calkins Units of Study used to completely leave it out and many schools only use her for ELA (reading and writing). I guess in 2017 she started selling a phonics component. I have seen some schools use Lucy and then do phonics separately with Fundations. A lot of older kids in this country truly never got phonics instruction which is critical in k-2nd. Now these kids come to high school struggling to read and especially to write. Whole language was a trend for a while I guess and then balanced literacy came to combine whole language and phonics instruction. But Lucy Calkins used to call her curriculum balanced literacy and it very obviously left out any phonics prior to 2017. Every school is different so PP can’t say that all schools teach phonics. Trust me- I’ve worked in schools that don’t and don’t want it taught. I think most are starting to slowly realize it’s necessary though. [/quote]
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