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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please read “The Knowledge Gap” by Natalie Wexler. Lucy Calkins is HORRIBLE. I can’t believe teachers go along with this. [/quote]

Every teacher and school administrator should read this book.  I doubt many of them have.  [/quote]

It’s basically an opinion piece. All of my kids learned to read by me via whole language. All were reading at a 3rd grade level upon entering K. Head sprout (if it’s still around) was also part of my mom curriculum. Re phonics -  You are teaching kids to read laugh and write it as laf. Why would anyone want their child to learn phonics in K?  I still remember the K teacher “correcting” my DCs spelling/phonics test. Laugh was marked wrong and corrected as Laf. School was Skool. My poor DC came home crying. I had to schedule a conference and explain that DC DRA was a 36 and to stop teaching DC phonics. [/quote]

Your teacher was an idiot, but if you understood phoneme/ morpheme correspondence you would know that kids don’t typically master the gh pattern until later than kindergarten.  Check the neuroscience research.

Some kids can learn to read without phonics, but they tend to start to struggle after the 3rd grade when there aren’t any more pictures and they have to decode unknown words.  It is better and more efficient to teach effective reading to all.[/quote]

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