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[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]

With really great reading the approach was that kindergarten focused on basic patterns like short a and long a and then first and second grade focused on complex patterns like r controlled vowels[/quote]

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