Opus 2025-161: Sounds Good

I am sitting in the library working and listening to a tutor work with a youngster a few feet away.  She is teaching phonics.  I thought phonics was dead.  Maybe they are in the public schools.  It is 9:30 in the morning and the kid should be in school so it makes me wonder if it is a mother doing a bit of home schooling in the library.

I also wonder if we should embrace different levels of phonics.  I thought I learned phonics.  I certainly learned to sound out words and use a dictionary for syllable stress.  As an adult I ran into someone who had actually studied the intricacies of the system.  It was fascinating.  I had no idea is was such a complete system.

Don’t worry that you don’t know the whole system.  If your decedents are in public school and are not getting anything but “see and say” then feel free to teach them the bits that you know.  It is one of those situations where knowing part is better than knowing none.

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