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[quote=Anonymous]PP again -- but teaching phonics badly is better than not teaching it at all.

It really is amazingly simple to teach kids to read.

Step 1) make sure they know a sound for every consonant and know the short and long vowel sounds.
Step 2) teach them to blend and segment sounds. Use continuous blending.

Step 3) Then teach them to blend and segment 3 and 4 sound words. Teach them to "flex" the vowel sound between short and long sound to figure out which one to use.  Flexing opens up so many more words than (fat cat sat)

cat
cop
so
me
kind
wind
went
gold
old
I
he 
we

Step 4) Teach them th, sh, ch, wh, ng, nk (some people teach these in different ways or order -- it's all good. I use something called Secret Stories which is AWESOME!!). (My Kindergarten ESOL students are at this step right now.)

Step 5) now time for vowel teams and silent -e   Lots of different ways to do this.  Again I use Secret Stories -- kids learn really fast!

Step 6) Kids now have enough of the code to be able to pretty much decode most of the "Sight Words" or "High Frequency Words" from Grades K-2.  They don't have to remember words by memory -- they can actually decode them.

Step 7) use spelling lists to address the rest of the irregular spellings -- tougher words and spellings like "ought" and "laugh"

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