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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether elementary schools do or do not teach phonics in the lower grades, don't they teach prefixes, suffixes, and root words in the upper grades?  How do children learn prefixes without learning letters, sounds, syllables, etc.?[/quote]

Yes.  When I do my remedial reading groups and have kids in grades 4 and 5 who are poor decoders, sometimes I teach prefixes and suffixes as a pretext for teaching them how to sound out syllables.   If you don't, you get kids who read "pre" as "per" or "par" and "tion" as "ting".   Or they read the prefix and suffix but skip or goof up the base!

I had a student read "reversible" as "revisible".   "Description" became "decaption".

BTW I had a child in grade 5 today try to read the following words:

student (she said/guessed "standing")
hunted (she said "hated")
drawing (she said "drowning")
branches (she said "barches", realized that wasn't a word, but couldn't figure out the correct word).

No, she isn't dyslexic.  (Probably).  She just never f*@&ing learned to decode.  I do this all the time. We get new students to our school who never really learned to sound things out.  It just takes time and energy, but almost always we can sort things out and get them decoding close to grade level, at which point they can then read or write anything they want and participate in the classroom curriculum with no hesitations.

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