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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who taught your kid to read - the sounds, the blends, the combos, the practice. 
Preschool, you, an IPad app, or your independent school teacher (and if so what grade)?

We had play based pk and K, lots of specials for grade 1, and no homework policies school so have never seen a word list or literacy pack come home for either of our kids. Now we feel naive since they still don’t know concepts or spelling and I wonder what fell through the cracks here. [/quote]

Certainly alphabet memorization and reading at school helps at pk/k levels. But if you read to your kids as parents (almost) every night as toddlers thru pre-k they’ll learn almost by osmosis. DC1 got about 3-5 Dr. Seuss books a night from age 2-3 on and was reading independently by 4 / 4-1/2. DC2 was less interested in reading and being read to and started closer to 5 / 5-1/2, which seemed fine. [/quote]

Please please do not suggest all children will learn to read through “osmosis”. This is absolutely false and it is reckless to propel this myth.[/quote]

DP.  [b]If you read to your child every day or night, and you point at the words while you read to reinforce the concept of word, I can guarantee your child will learn how to read barring any learning disability or vision problem.[/b]  And while I would use different words than the PP, it is an awful lot like osmosis.  The most important thing any parent can do is to read, read, read to their little child.  Every. Day.  For at least 10-15 minutes minimum a day.  And when the child wants to "read" back, let him/her![/quote]

Are you an educator ? That may have been your personal experience but I can “guarantee” it does not work that way for every child.[/quote]

Yes, in fact I am a highly trained reading specialist.  Barring a learning disability or vision problem, children learn to read by being read to and then by reading back.  It is a thing.  Look it up.  It should be consistent and have sufficient duration, like 15-30 minutes a day.  Repetition of the same books is fine, even encouraged.  In fact, at its most extreme, you could even say that children don't need to know the English alphabet because when learning to read by sight children are connecting sound with groups of symbols and space.[/quote]

Even Lucy Calkins admitted that phonics instruction is a needed part of "balanced literacy". [/quote]

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