[Kozak]

Monkey Reading.

They tried to force this on my kids in California in the 90’s.
Fortunately my son had a teacher who was about to retire and she told us she was going to teach them Phonics regardless of the curriculum.

We taught our daughter Phonics from home.

[PUGACHEV]

This is how I was taught to read by the nuns in the early ‘50s. Despite what the article says, I quickly became an excellent reader with a larger than normal vocabulary. This has been a benefit to me throughout my entire life. The only drawback is that without phonetics, spelling becomes a separate discipline to be mastered, but the trade-off is well worth it.

I still remember the first word I was taught. The nun in her full black habit stood at the blackboard and drew two upright ovals, side by side. She made a dot in the center of each oval, and stepped back to let the effect of two eyes staring at us sink in. Then she placed an L in the front and a K at the back, and introduced us to our first word.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I went out of my way to find Dick and Jane books for my kids in the early 1990s, buying them off of Ebay, used bookstores, anywhere I could find them. I don’t know any reading method that has been more successful for more people.

[originalbuckeye]

I taught Phonics to my son at home, too. He was awarded ‘Best Reader’ in his 4 years olds pre-school class.
He is teaching Phonics to his daughter who just started Kindergarten. I have heard him say ‘that is a sight word’ and couldn’t figure out what he meant.
I sent him a link to an article yesterday explaining how ‘sight words’ aren’t the way to go. Unfortunately, that is what she in being taught at school.