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Posted: July 23 2011 at 3:30pm | IP Logged Quote MamaFence
I'm so lost with phonics. How important is it as a "subject" on it's own? Last year, when we had Seton books, I gave up on spelling and phonics because I felt they were too much effort for too little worth. Now, I'm more designing my own curriculum, pulling from different book lists like MA and MODG. MA doesn't seem to have anything specific about phonics, but MODG does. So, how important is it to teach phonics? Isn't that part of learning to read?

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 8:51pm | IP Logged Quote jawgee
My oldest two children are readers and with both of them I did a phonics program to teach them the basics. With my oldest I used Abeka (before I knew about all of the beautiful Catholic HS programs!) and with my second son we did Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and then moved on to the Little Stories for Little Folks readers with CHC.

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