the public school I went to in the 1970s, was in West Chester, PA and ranked at the bottom of the public school system. They only taught phonics in kindergarten through
I'd be interested to know - not in an arguing way, just because this is the sort of thing I'm always interested in knowing - what curriculum they used, or at least what their general approach was.
Though kindergarten is really too early for mass reading instruction. Studies generally show that if you spend kindergarten doing real-world learning and pre-reading/pre-writing activities, then students learn to read faster when you start the next year. They gain fluency faster and end up as stronger readers by 2nd grade than their peers who started in kindy or pre-k.
(That's for children who learned to read via school instruction. Those who learned to read on their own are outliers.)
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I'd be interested to know - not in an arguing way, just because this is the sort of thing I'm always interested in knowing - what curriculum they used, or at least what their general approach was.
Though kindergarten is really too early for mass reading instruction. Studies generally show that if you spend kindergarten doing real-world learning and pre-reading/pre-writing activities, then students learn to read faster when you start the next year. They gain fluency faster and end up as stronger readers by 2nd grade than their peers who started in kindy or pre-k.
(That's for children who learned to read via school instruction. Those who learned to read on their own are outliers.)