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I don’t get it either. My daughter is in Kindergarten and has made a ton of progress in reading. This is in a GS3 rated MoCo school. She’s gotten plenty of phonics instruction along with some “sight words” memorization. They spend lots of time on inventive spelling activities. My daughter wrote me a long note yesterday asking me to help her with some “projexts”! Her teacher is always encouraging the children to “stretch out the sounds” while reading/writing. No complaints here.[/quote]

What I have noticed, from having taught in many different types of schools, is that schools that have more poor students often do a much better job of coving the basics than schools with children from families with a higher SES.

Kids from the upper class families often start school already knowing their letter sounds and many are reading.  If they aren't parents intervene , get tutors etc.  The heavy lifting of teaching letter sounds and decoding has already been done with most of the students; so even if a teacher doesn't know how to teach these basics, it won't be very obvious.

When you are teaching poorer kids, sure some of hem attended preK, but many didn't.  Many kids in K do not jave any basic literacy and teachers by necessity have to get good at teaching the basics.  They also don't have parents upset with them for not having the kids reading "real literature".

Is decoding the only thing that you need to teach children?  Absolutely not.  But it is a necessary fundamental.

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