“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.”
Well then I consider your post now corrected, and while your kids played around looking at words, they wound up being taught reading properly - good job.
Here’s some light reading as to how California literally lost A GENERATION of kids to Whole Language. It is DESTRUCTIVE AS HELL and anyone who claims that reading can be learned that way is simply evil.
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/read.htm
A lot of people here have school-aged kids, and when they are told by the so-called teachers not to worry about whole language or sight words, I don’t want those teachers getting ANY support here.
If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context.
That's not what I did.
Whole-language is generally a cause of the left.
I can understand your earlier troll comment better now. Either way, it was still wrong.
Can you accept my eccentricity?
I do find it rather humorous that the images at the site that you give in support of your argument has something very similar to what I used earlier. Isn't that whole word reading? 
