Phonics isn’t for everyone. Early readers...and I mean early. Like 2 year olds and under often can’t handle the abstraction of phonics. Better to teach whole words, which they can abstract, and let them learn the patterns of phonics by seeing a sufficient quantity of whole words. The arrogant tone of the article implies that the author knows best. Author doesn’t know enough to even know how much they don’t know.
I was a VERY early reader, and I had no problem with phonics. Fortunately, my mom was literally an “old-school” schoolteacher and used phonics to teach me reading at home. She was forced to use “whole-word” in her classroom and hated it.
One properly gets to “whole-word” THROUGH phonics. Trying to jump directly to “whole-word” just does not work, as proven by at least 75 years of total failure.
The arrogant tone of the article implies that the author knows best. Author doesn’t know enough to even know how much they don’t know.
Yeah, just ignore the hundreds of studies that prove you wrong, plus the data that show the massive decline in reading ability in the general population.