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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our charter is almost 100% phonics - and we hate it. There is no balanced literacy -  it's all drill, baby, drill. [/quote]

This is the way[/quote]

...to make children hate reading...to bore children out of their skulls...to degrade the value of literature and great books...[/quote]

Heavens to Betsy! My 3 and 4 year old doesn't like the way reading is taught and clearly this will have a lifelong impact on...NOTHING. Sometimes in life kids have to learn stuff. And sometimes in life it isn't as fun as eating Chocolate and playing. That's life. Parents like you amuse the heck out of me. [/quote]

I never said it would have a lifelong impact. The biggest educational predictor is education level of the mother. My kid is going to be fine. DD seems to be of pretty average intelligence - speaks three languages and is learning to read in all of them. In two of them, lots of play, music, and reading a loud of actual books - in English, lots of phonics and drilling, and teacher has bad grammar. It's pretty grim. I am not convinced that pushing early literacy in PK is a good idea. Even the phonics pushers don't say that.  [/quote]

To clarify- (OP again, lol)  my point was that ECE should not focus on early literacy, but instead focus on skills that will lay a good foundation for learning to read later. Appropriate activities include things like “going on a listening tour,” and pointing out sounds like cars driving by, birds chirping, leaves blowing in the wind. Training the ear to be perceptive is a really great, age appropriate skill that helps kids to be good readers when the time comes.[/quote]

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