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[quote=Anonymous]My favorite quote regarding learning to read:

"The reading wars have been fought and science lost".

While around one-half of students will learn to read by any method, one-half need direct instruction in phonics. For some strange reason, many schools do not teach direct phonics or teach a watered down version of direct, systematic phonics. Instead many schools are teaching methods such as look and guess the word by looking at the picture to figure out the content. Or having students read repetitive stories where one word is changed in the sentence to match a new picture on the page. Or other strategies that good readers don't need to depend on because they can effortlessly decode.

I am a school psychologist, but unlike most school psychologists I actually was a teacher before becoming a school psychologist. I taught in the era of whole language and realized it was just flat out an awful way to teach children to read. I secretly taught phonics and my students excelled in reading.

Too many reading teachers at schools don't believe that systematic, direct phonics instruction is the best way to teach reading. Knowing this, I made sure I taught my kids how to read using a direct phonics program before they started kindergarten. One I used Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. The other child I taught using Sing, Spell, Read, and Write.  [/quote]

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