Teaching through phonics - generally various forms of analytic phonics - predates the "look-say" method which only gained prominence in the 1930s and 1940s.
The pendulum has theoretically swung back and forth about once per generation since the Baby Boomers (who were the first generation to grow up almost entirely without phonics), but in reality schools (and teachers) have tended to do variations on "phonics and", which is mostly the "and" and not the phonics.
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Date: 2022-05-18 03:59 am (UTC)This is untrue.
Teaching through phonics - generally various forms of analytic phonics - predates the "look-say" method which only gained prominence in the 1930s and 1940s.
The pendulum has theoretically swung back and forth about once per generation since the Baby Boomers (who were the first generation to grow up almost entirely without phonics), but in reality schools (and teachers) have tended to do variations on "phonics and", which is mostly the "and" and not the phonics.