Parents who home-school have discovered that teaching is fairly simple. One of the joys they have experienced is seeing their children excel in achievement. In fact, children want to learn, and will do so if we do not discourage them.
Our schools have known for a hundred years that the best way to teach reading is a system of phonics, yet they continue to use a look-say method in one form or another. With that system the child memorizes certain words, and so it is limited by how many words he can memorize. With phonics the child learns the meaning and pronunciation of every letter, and knowing that, he can read almost any word. Children can learn to read at age three or four; they can read words that are beyond their understanding, but they can pronounce them.
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