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Apparently, some schools in the U.S. didn't teach phonics until recently (2014).

Did anyone here learn phonics in school?

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[โ€“] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh phonics is the old one (although it's making a comeback). The "new" one that they've been promoting for a couple decades (and have recently realized isn't very good) is cueing, the one where you just show kids words and encourage them to use context clues to guess what they mean, and hope that they eventually learn to read by doing that. Phonics is the one where you start with letter (and letter group) sounds and learn to sound out words by reading out loud.

[โ€“] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It was new at the time! Or maybe. While the education I got was pretty good, it was eclectic. I only remember learning math. I picked up language before solid memories form. I also sort of have some brain uh. Problems.

I liked moving the tens to the ones place. I think these days kids are doing some kind of cube thing? Seems neat!