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Re:The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading by MaximumYComb on Saturday August 24, 2019 @11:23PM (#20791156)
I wasn't aware of the methods used in the US. Here in Australia, we have phonics at my daughters' school and she's coming along really well. My 6.5-year-old daughter is able to read basically anything I put in front of her by sounding through words.
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Re:The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading by DanBC on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:02AM (#20791756)
But make sure she has an age appropriate dictionary so that she can learn what the words mean, as well as being able to sound them out.

I love phonics. It's powerful. But sometimes children are so confident at sounding out words that we miss the fact they don't always understand those words.

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Re:The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading by eljefe900 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:20AM (#20792347)
My US centric bias is showing. Thanks for the reminder!

I suppose that a phonics lesson in Oz probably sounds a bit different than in the US. And they’re both effective. That’s fun to think about.

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