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Phonics is a useful tool later, but teaching smart children to read with phonics is very confusing to most of them and sometimes slows them down. Phonics works to teach �decoding� skills, but a child who knows how to decode still may not understand what he reads. Most really bright children appear to start reading almost spontaneously
Just wanted to hear everyones opinions on this one. I think the phonics vs sight words is an interesting debate.
My DD was a spontaneous reader sometime before K. I did not even know she could read until her K teacher told me. I am interested to see how my DS developes this skill.
