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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Phonics is valuable and essential in teaching kids to read.  But, if that is the only tool a teacher uses it would be like an art teacher who doesn't let the kids use anything but crayons and drawing paper.

It can be done--but it is limiting on results.[/quote]

Learning to decode with automaticity is a fundamental basic of reading.  Is is not meant to be the end result!

It is like a violin teacher who makes sure her students know how to play the notes correctly and easily, before attempting to play a sonata.[/quote]

Sure.  And, you can get someone who quickly loses interest because playing chords without a melody is not satisfying to most children.

You cannot read by relying exclusively on decoding.  You are limiting the language in very early books to "hop" and "pop."  How are you going to teach the kid to decode "one, two?"  Are you going to start with "three?"

There are lots of words that cannot be sounded out properly.  And, yes, I do believe in teaching kids to decode with phonics.  But, it cannot be used as the only tool.[/quote]

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