Kinda like you, I was taught using what amounts to phonics. I learned words, then I was shown those words in a book once I knew how to say them. My reading and

Kinda like you, I was taught using what amounts to phonics. I learned words, then I was shown those words in a book once I knew how to say them. My reading and speaking were years ahead of my peers. I remember when Hooked on Phonics came around at my school it struck me that the way I was taught had a name and it didn't really occur to me anyone learned that differently. I think the more modern problem is that a lot of parents offload things like this to the education system, so they become classified as emerging education issues. There's probably lots of cause and effect incentive system related reasons for that. I had three siblings that weren't served dinner unless they taught me to say a new word.