[BobL]

“Perhaps you should modify your statement. Maybe...Whole word does not work for my kids.
It does work, no matter what you say as my kids are living proof that it does. The problem is that it doesn’t work well in institutional settings.
I taught my kids to read, not the public schools. “

Your kids must have an AMAZING memory. As stated in the article, they can now recognize 100,000 words by sight (in all forms), assuming college level. And to think they could NEVER sound out a word...because that would show they learned PHONICS somewhere along the way...can’t do that, now can we.

[philman_36]

And to think they could NEVER sound out a word...because that would show they learned PHONICS somewhere along the way...can’t do that, now can we.
As I stated in reply #64 I did teach her (and my son, though not stated there) phonics. It was easier to teach them that aspect of language after they got a better grasp of words to begin with.
Besides, phonetics comes in, in part, through audio first from earliest childhood simply through speaking. The way we speak helps teach the aspects of phonics.
Anything else?