Interesting article. I’m from Germany and I learned to read with the phonetics and sounding out words approach. My kids as well. It’s the first time I heard abo

Interesting article. I’m from Germany and I learned to read with the phonetics and sounding out words approach. My kids as well. It’s the first time I heard about this style of teaching how to read. My first reaction while reading was: “and how do some kids manage to read at all with only this system?” It’s very late into the article where they mention that first some kids will learn how to read no matter what and second that the problem is a mixed message as schools do teach phonetics but that the mean approach taught when seeing unknown words is to use a simpler system. I myself never look at queues or pictures when reading unknown texts. While learning English I read English books and used the context approach. But I had to first learn a lot of vocabulary to even start that.