Janet & David--
Click on Janet's link and, after scrolling down to the website's search box, type in "phonics" . . .
voila! . . . the article is one of several on the subject.
Our daughter learned to read before she was four years old, thanks to roadsigns, headlines, Dr. Seuss and her very own bookclub membership. Before starting to grade school, she had outgrown the good Dr. and was more interested in reading 2nd grade level storybooks. So, when her first-grade teacher raised hell with me because phonics was the <u>only</u> way to teach a child how to read and reading comprehension was, for all intents and purposes, immaterial to learning--
??!!--well, let's just say that I'm glad our daughter never lost her love for books <u>despite</u> learning phonics as an afterthought.
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