[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?

[BobL]

“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.