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[quote=Anonymous]My kid (now in 2nd so this is recent experience) was taught lots of phonics and learned to read at school (Title 1 DCPS). She got lots of emphasis on letter sounds and identification in PK (at her public school) and had started to put it together and could sound out cvc words by the summer before K. Then in K it took off thanks to terrific instruction from her K teacher with a lot of emphasis on phonics.

Having said that, this does not describe the experience of every kid I know at our school. I think reading clicks more easily for some kids than others and I also think how you support at home makes a difference. We always reinforced whatever she was doing at school, at home. Whether it was when she was in PK and we had lots of letter-based toys at home and would play rhyming games or ask her to find words that started with a certain letter, always providing level-appropriate reading material from BOB books to early readers to accessible chapter books when she was ready, to reading to her a ton and also helping expand her vocabulary and literacy with audio books and lots of verbal interaction.

I think expecting the school to teach your kid to read without you doing ANYTHING is unrealistic. Maybe you get lucky and you happen to have a kid for whom reading comes easy, but you're just as likely to have a kid who isn't like that. If you are doing your part at home then your kid gets what they need no matter what. I can't imagine just sitting back and expecting the school to make it happen.[/quote]

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