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[quote=Anonymous][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] It depends. A lot of teaching prep programs pushed whole language in the 70s and 80s. Catholic schools did not remove phonics but publics and privates did. It backfired but gave rise to a lot of phonics programs that are marketed to the LD community. Mainstream privates use them but to a lesser extant for their non-LD students. Publics instituted phonics instruction in the state curriculum standards twenty years ago.[/quote] Simply teaching some "phonics" here and there is going to be insufficient for many kids. It's not the same as a systematic approach to teaching decoding that methodically builds on to previously acquired skills. For what it's worth, the preprimary Montessori curriculum does an excellent job of methodically laying the building blocks for reading and writing, beginning with phonemic awareness games for the littlest kids and proceeding through basic decoding and onward. [/quote]
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