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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's baffling to me that any competent teacher could ever believe that "good readers" look at the pictures and guess and only consider the letters/sounds as a last resort. Did they never reflect on how they personally learned to read? Consider that for centuries people learned to read from books without pictures?[/quote]

We knew it was wrong!!! But the curriculum specialists and supervisors insisted this was they way.
I remember being forbidden to tell students to point to each letter and say the sound. They had to be told to “frame the word” and consider the word as a whole, not letter by letter.

I taught systematic phonics in secret for years.  I kept it hidden by saying I was doing a mini lesson. Administrators just didn’t want to see us doing a boring whole group phonics lesson for all students… you had to pretend you assessed each students individual need and were targeting that one specific skill they were missing. So I pretended that’s what I was doing. But it’s crazy to teach that way. In reality I just taught phonics in a normal scope and sequence and didn’t tell anyone what I was doing. My students usually advanced very quickly and were able to decode and spell multisyllabic words correctly and then we could use the balanced literacy curriculum more easily.[/quote]

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