Hi Donna,
DR>Mine too, Nancy. Jennifer read simple words before she got to
  >Kindergarten...some she had picked up "by osmosis" (i.e. being read to), 
and
  >others, she sounded out. Kristin was the same way. The school I enrolled 
the
My younger daughter could read at a grade two or three level by the time
she turned five. No one taught her she too seemed to have learned by
"osmosis" as was able to figure out unknown words easily.
 >both in taught HEAVY phonics. Now, they are the best readers in the 4th and 
3
  >grades in their current school. It really amazes me when the teachers 
commen
  >on it and then ask "what did you do?"!
Donna, since your daughter - Jennifer - seemed to pick up words via
"osmosis" how can you attribute her good reading to the teaching of
heavy phonics?
I'd like to discuss this issue but first I'd like to know how you feel
about whole language reading programs? Since I have researched reading
as a student teacher for educational psychology and again as a teacher
for my additional qualification in special education I've come across
some interesting material.
So tell me more, please.
Ruth
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