But the PHONICS thing. What's up with that? I heard that from a parent at the gifted school that her kid would be made to go back and do the whole k year over because our school didn't do phonics with her. Honestly do I need to be concerned. DD6 is in 1st, skipped k, and today is reading another American Girl Mystery book (amazon lists as 5th grade level, i think 4th). so if she was never taught phonics will this hurt her?
My dd8 bombed the Phonetics section of her Stanford Achievement Test (4 out of 9 on Phonetic Analysis - Vowels) yet for her free time reading at school she is reading
The Fellowship of the Ring. It doesn't seem that phonics is critical for advanced readers.
