We have all of the books thru Advanced Math.
I am very math-illiterate.
Phonics--I love phonics.
I'll bet you some homeschool moms could make a nice income tutoring kids who struggle with reading. I taught my kids using phonics and then allowed them to read out of the readers they were most interested in. All of my kids enjoyed the Pathway Readers and they actually read them over and over.
Same. I'm very math literate but mine have never had to ask me any questions when using the Saxon books.
I had a teacher tell me one time that phonics was a very weak way to teach reading. I asked her for the studies proving her assertion, and she couldn't come up with any. I handed her a copy of Rudolph Flesh's book "Why Johnny Can't Read", asked her to read it and check out all the research cited, then get back to me on any that proved any other method was better.
LOL she wouldn't talk to me after that.
Once mine read her first book by herself, I'd take a big bag to the library every week to keep her in reading material. It was too expensive to buy her all the books she wanted.