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Yes, they teach phonics but nowhere near as robustly as they used to, and instead rely a lot more on sight words. You might want to take a minute at reading comprehension before making yourself look foolish. Sight words only help kids learn about a thousand words, but that ends with the curriculum - whereas phonics gives them a toolbox that can better help them decode, acquire and build new vocabulary as a lifelong skill. The phonics curriculum in school today is not what it used to be a few decades ago, which is why so many more older kids are struggling with reading and language skills. They teach it, but don't spend as much time on it or reinforce it as they did 30 years ago, despite it being a vital and needed lifelong skill. Not to mention, teaching of grammar has become weaker, and many teachers don't even mark incorrect spelling anymore - because many of the younger teachers do not themselves have the language skills that teachers did a few decades ago. Maybe you are one of the young ones, that you don't know this.

Question: Does CC explain how to do the above? Will it provide more robust materials or will it teach the teachers how to teach like they did 30 years ago? I think it's doubtful since they are only a set of standards (what the child is supposed to be able to do and not a manual for teaching).  [/quote]

PP is more clueless than I thought.  signed:  one who has been involved in primary education for more than forty years.  I have seen many reading programs come and go--and phonics has always been a part of them. 
 
 
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