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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 4 kids and my last one had no phonics.  She is now in middle school. She  did great with reading and was a voracious reader in elementary school so she personally enjoyed the approach.  But she never had a spelling test since first grade and her spelling is behind.  Vocabulary was also considered wrong to teach  and I’m surprised how behind her vocabulary was compare to her siblings even though she read far more.  She is a bright kid so making up the gap now that vocabulary is back  We had many friends who taught phonics on the side as the reading method didn’t work.     I’m just wondering what group of kids really did well on all fronts - reading, vocabulary, and spelling.  [/quote]

The kids who are taught phonics, given spelling tests, and told to look up words they don’t know. That’s your answer.

It’s how most of us were taught in school.[/quote]

And how lots of Catholic schools still teach.[/quote]

Secular private schools, too — thank god. [/quote]

Yes, they teach the old school way - memorization, using a dictionary, etc.

It "worked" for generations and generations (including us DCUMers), BUT the difference it now public schools mainstream SN kids. These kids don't have the mental bandwidth, executive function, the attention span, or whatever other hinderance to do things like memorize, study for a test, sit still long enough to learn the mechanics of grammar (identify a predicate nominative), or master long division.  So public school moved the goal posts and leveled the playing field and started using cherry-picked curricula so that learning was "easier". That is why public school (FCPS comes to mind) doesn't use textbooks. There is no textbook that covers their wonky, all over the place, and hard to follow curriculum. [/quote]

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