A big part of it is that many schools don’t teach phonics anymore. The bright kids can backfill the phonics rules with enough exposure to “sight words”. I suspect the dimmer ones never quite manage it.
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if i have to choose which group of researchers to believe, i'm going to believe the linguistics guys before the educators, easily
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and you know, given what's known of language acquisition in children, it makes complete sense to me that reading is based primarily on individual word recognition
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There is a whole broader analysis I once read that views the abandonment of phonics as part of a broader turn toward the Prussian style of widget-producing schooling
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Ah here it is ("The Underground History of American Education" https://archive.org/stream/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_758/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_djvu.txt …)pic.twitter.com/9ziJAIMRR0
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