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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did. I read to them all the time and it was a natural progression for them to learn the sounds and letters and words. [/quote]
I’ve read to my kids from birth and it did not naturally teach them to read.  It did not make them enjoy reading when they finally did learn, although they do still like being read to.[/quote]

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Evidence shows that almost all kids need direct phonic instruction in order to learn to read. Why all schools do not do this is ridiculous. [/quote]

And many of the kids who learned to read by “osmosis” will hit a wall in 4th grade when the reading gets much harder and hey need to decide and understand word origins for unfamiliar words.[/quote]

No, they don't. Parent of 11th grader.[/quote]

^^Me again. Keep in mind that these kids who enter PreK or K already reading are present for most of the formal instruction that the other kids are getting, so they get it too. It may be review for them or it may be, an "oh that makes sense of what I already knew." They aren't missing out just because their brains were wired to learn to learn reading a different way. FWIW, my DC who picked up reading by being read to has also picked up reading other languages the same way. In 11th, DC is mastering a 3rd foreign language, one of which has a different alphabet. Learning the formal way was OK, but not working as fast for DC; reading along to books on tape, similar to the way DC learned to read English by being read to, worked like a charm.[/quote]

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