[wintertime]

I can’t see how English can be taught without it.
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It isn't. Even those posters who insist that they learned to read by using sight or whole word methods learned by phonics. Somewhere or somehow they made the connection between the shape of the letters and the sounds.

By the way, I find it interesting that those, who learned to read at 3 years old, can remember every detail of the method or methods used.

[BobL]

“By the way, I find it interesting that those, who learned to read at 3 years old, can remember every detail of the method or methods used. “

LOL. That occurred to me also.