"Its premise is that learning to read, like learning to speak, comes naturally via exposure to good material." //facepalm Speech is biological and has been wi

"Its premise is that learning to read, like learning to speak, comes naturally via exposure to good material." //facepalm Speech is biological and has been with us for hundreds of thousands of years. We don't need to be taught to speak. Reading and Writing (which are NOT the same skill) were accounting tools invented by temple clerics 10,000 years ago, that we only started trying to teach universally barely 100 years ago. They are not part of our biology or natural development. No one would try teaching mathematics by handing a four year old a Good, Quality, Well-Written physics textbook and expect them to understand what they are looking at, much less that they would somehow learn addition in the process.