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“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

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Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading Re: “ Far too many California children can’t read ” (Page A7, June 17).

Happily, the new methodology for teaching reading is phonics-based. Local teachers do not have dominion over their lessons because they do not have control over what is taught and how it’s taught.

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Direct and explicit phonics instruction teaches students how to sound out the letters in words. Rather than guessing words from pictures or context, children are taught to decode the language itself.

This approach focuses on systematic and explicit instruction of letter-sound relationships, allowing for students to decode unfamiliar words and build them back together.