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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught my kids the sounds letters make starting when they were one or two.  It was as basic as teaching them that's a picture of a dog, that's an A, A says ahhh.  By the time they got to Kindergarten they could read simple books. Learning how letters and words (and numbers) work was just part of what we talked about everyday.  They are not geniuses, probably about IQ 120 or so.  [b]I'm not sure why everybody doesn't do this.[/b]  Even if your child struggles with dyslexia or some other learning difficulty at least you would know that early and could provide extra help.[/quote]

I assume you're aware that there are students out there whose parents don't speak English? Or if they do, they don't speak it well enough to teach their kids phonics? That's one of the reasons why we have to trust our schools to actually teach kids things like reading.[/quote]

That's a good point but if the parents are literate in their native language they could teach their children that and it is much easier to learn English if you are able to read and write another language.  If the parents are illiterate completely then they will obviously hope the school will teach their child reading and writing, but that does not represent a huge segment of the US population.[/quote]

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