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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who's this "we"?  My kid is in first grade in a DCPS and is getting explicit phonics instruction, along with learning sight words (which aren't pronounced phonetically).[/quote]

Not case in Arlington [/quote]

and I had a SPED teacher tell me that my child would learn to spell by "being exposed to texts!" and yes, she said it with excitement. And she is wrong. I've started tutoring my child in phonics at home. I'm sure I am not a great tutor, but it's better than not learning the rules of English at all. [/quote]

I'm an ESOL teacher and just reading this thread.

I firmly believe in the value of teaching children systematic decoding skills.  I have found a solid program in this, starting with the basic code and moving as quickly as you can to the vowel teams, consonant digraphs, and then being able to decode multisyllabic words, is extremely effective.  And the classroom teachers in our school beyond 1st grade really aren't teaching this, so if my ESOL students didn't get it, or didn't have enough oral language to understand their instruction, by 2nd grade they NEED me to teach them this way, or they will NEVER learn decoding.

And when they see an unfamiliar word like "struck" in a text and they don't know how to wound out words, they will use those stupid strategies they have been taught for reading an unfamiliar word:  Look at the picture, look at the first letter, think what makes sense, and ... GUESS!  They might say "start" or "stick" or something close.  For "house" they read "home" or "horse".   It's crazy!
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