re: Louisiana records nation's highest growth in reading after switching to a phonics based sy

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I have a 1st grader, so I imagine she is in the midst of this. I am impressed with how well she can read.

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I taught all four of my kids to read before their fourth birthdays, and when I tell you it was easy I mean REALLY easy. It took about five minutes per night for about four weeks. After that they could read any simple word like “hat” or “rabbit”; they could red words with long vowels like “feat”; and they knew about five or six sight words like “a”, “the” and “was”. Basically reading on about a second grade level. Of course I used phonics like anyone with a brain would.