Fascinating.
Both I and my sisters learned phonetically; however, one sister is dyslexic and she has a strongly dyslexic son.
As a former teacher, I’ll tell you it DOESN’T work.
I had a friend who was dyslexic long before whole reading was ever a thing.
dyslexia is a physical neurological syndrome. the impairment it causes is mitigated or exacerbated by how language is taught. (brain tissue analysis have shown islands of cortical tissue in grey matter) Its been obvious for years that the left has been dumbing the great unwashed for their advantage. (socialist take over of the USA and globe, keeping others from jobs they want for their kids etc) The common core extension is just now entering college and is acknowledged as the least prepared generation ever. per the lefts interpretation of Animal House “fat drunk and stupid is the way to go through life”
I once asked a ‘whole word’ proponent how do you read something if you’ve never seen a word before... he said “well then you go back to sounding it out”..
I said “How? If you’ve never learned to do that?”
So they want to teach people to see a whole word first? THEN teach them the rules to build a word from the letters?
Why not just teach they way they did for hundreds of years (successfully) WHO’S STUPID IDEA WAS THIS? IS THERE A NAME? OR IS THIS JUST ‘COMMON CORE’?