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[quote=Anonymous]Some do, some don't.  It especially swings by district.  Many years back, when I was a kid, they taught reading through workbooks on phonics.  It was boring.  Really boring.  At times there wasn't even any actual reading.  But it worked, most of the time.  Not all the time though, because kids were bored.

Then someone had the great idea to teach reading in a more fun, natural way.  They had success with their class and wrote a book about it.  Academia jumped on board, because people who work in colleges need to pretend to have new great ideas, and that filtered down to school districts who implemented the new "fun" way to learn reading as a canned program that labeled all phonics as "boring" and "drill and kill" and insisted kids could learn to read in a more holistic way.

It didn't work, for obvious reasons.  But not being able to perceive shades of gray for reasons of incompetence, bureaucracy, and ignorance, schools continued to believe that it had to be either boring workbooks or learning to read without....learning to read words.

The best schools and teachers have managed to mix both to create great reading programs that work for all kids.

If you're in FCPS, that's not one of them.  They are still clinging mostly to a holistic reading program and most of the teachers who have graduated recently don't even know how to teach phonics.  [/quote]

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