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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can somebody say "phonics didn't work?" That is how all phonetic languages work. A symbol corresponds to a sound and then you put it together. [/quote]

It is possible to teach phonics badly -- excruciatingly slowly, for example.

I have also seen people teach it incorrectly or inefficiently.  I knew some 1st grade teachers who taught exclusively by using word families.  They did teach the sounds of each consonant and vowel letter, but then did a word family or two a week.

Sat, fat, cat, rat, mat, that, hat...And they taught kids how to blend onset-rime.   s- at.  f - at.

But kids who weren't independently able to segment the a from the t in the rime, just memorized them together as /at/ and then got confused when the rime switched to -an or -all or -it.  They would learn the word families just for that one word family, but not be able to remember which one to use.

Kids who were already able to segment sounds without explicit instruction did OK.

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