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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I am one of these kids, and my parents didn’t realize I had developed my own theory of phonics/ rules for figuring out words without explicit instruction. And I can say my rules were pretty good since I was a NMS and National Spelling Bee state finalist.

Now as I watch my kids learn to read in a school with proper phonics instruction as part of their reading curriculum it is really interesting.  One of my kids is breezing through and reading at a high school level in 3rd grade. He will note when he learns a spelling pattern how that matches or doesn’t his hypothesis about how those sounds should have been spelled.    It is like reliving my own thinking about words.

My other child is dyslexic and she gets additional multi-sensory instruction with the same structured phonics/ word study content and as a 7th grader she is also above grade level now in reading, and she is on grade level in spelling.  Her comprehension has always been advanced and is now in college ranges.

I have realized phonics provides minor benefits for some, major benefits for others, but harms nobody. So I wish we could all support universal design for reading. Imagine how many mildly dyslexic kids could thrive with sound instruction![/quote]

It has been my experience with public and Catholic schools that teachers figure out who needs what kind of instruction, and they get it. It is hard to have universal instruction when kids have different learning needs. The methods used to teach my dyslexic students would not be the best use of time for ESL students, and the methods used for ESL students would not be the best use of time for advanced students, and so on. We are finally getting away from universal, one-size-fits-all education, and that is a good thing.[/quote]

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