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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here it is short and sweet:

Phonics should be only a very small part of the learning to read process.  Incorporation of the study of phonics should be extinguished as the child moves from the reading stage to the transitional reading stage.  Phonics should not be taught forever because parts of the process actually slow down fluency.  Because fluency leads to better comprehension, it is best to remove barriers to fluency.

Note that there are a few ardent supporters of phonics in DCUM land and they are people who don't understand the learning to read process.  I think they want phonics taught up through fifth or sixth grade, which is absolutely ridiculous.[/quote]

That honestly makes no sense, and sounds very much like a "cart before the horse" way of looking at things.   You have to build a foundation.  It should be fine for kids to be slow when they are learning new skills, like reading.

It's like how people learn to type.  It takes longer to learn how to touch-type properly than to hunt-and-peck, but once they get it, they are speedy typists.   Hunt-and-peck typists are faster in the beginning, but will never achieve any real speed in their typing.   Same with reading without a firm foundation in phonics.  Contextual clues and sight reading may be faster at the start and look like fluency, but as the child expands into unfamiliar vocabulary later in their education, they won't be able to tackle new words easily because they will stumble due to their weak foundation in phonics.  [/quote]

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