this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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Ever since I learned that huge swathes of people younger than me in the US weren’t taught phonics when learning to read and instead were told to look at the letters and guess from context what the word is, it has made so many internet arguments make a lot more sense. A lot of kids will pick phonics up on their own to an extent, but the ones that don’t are just fucked.
It’s appalling because it’s basically how being functionally illiterate works, but for some reason now it’s the goal. And then they complain kids can’t engage with complex reading and ideas.
That explains a few things, but WTF.
If you don't know phonics, how does looking at the letters help?
Magic.
Looking at the first letter and guessing based on what words you know that start with that letter, basically.
So, like gpt