33 years ago, when my first child was entering Kindergarten, I saw the new methods of child-centered learning and the whole-language approach to NOT teaching reading, spelling and writing.
I let her go to school for about a week, as I went shopping for supplies, did some quick research, and set up a little school room at home.
I wound up home-schooling way back then, before there were all kinds of programs and supplies. I wrote my own program for reading and spelling, using phonetic rules, which letter/s to sounds association, rapid left-to-right decoding. No guessing, no skipping words....reading.
I schooled both of my kids for about 6 years, started a small tutoring busines, had many, many children of all ages over the years, and it paid to put my own kids through Christian schooling. Just last June, I finished up teaching my 3rd grandchild and now all of them are in Christian school as well.
I said way back then that this system is designed to dumb down the population and there’s no way it’s not intentional.
We wrote our own curriculum, using mostly school books from the early to mid 1800s.
I found 2 sets of phonics rules forgotten since that era.feel free to use them:
The ignorant are easier to control.