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Love these children's rhymes!

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Truth!

Whenever there's a question about what skills need to be worked on first, I always say - READING. Writing is the close second. EVERYTHING relies on how well a person can read. Even math, sciences, and scrolling through Facebook!

Let's read! ❤️📖

Over 30 years ago, I was lucky enough to learn in University the importance of phonics-based word decoding skills for very early readers. It was not news then - it was simply how we taught beginning readers. Yes, there was a new buzz for what was then called "Whole Language", but phonics and letter-sound recognition was still considered to be a part of the whole.
I was also even more lucky to be mentored by a then-retiring teacher in a Grade 1 class, who in a very short period of time, taught me what SHE knew from her 30+-year career about how a teacher could systematically teach reading in a way that would meet most needs of beginning readers. That training set the stage for my entire career.
I am ever so thankful for my first teaching job that was in a private school. There, I was given the autonomy I needed to develop my own version of step-by-step reading strategies with the kindergarten and Grade 1 students I taught over the next 10+ years.
I read this article and watch the videos with a heavy heart, because it makes me sad to think that children, especially very young children, should have to struggle so severely because of trends in an educational system. We absolutely need to be trained and aware of diverse needs, differentiation in classrooms, and meeting the children where they're at. But something as simple as teaching decoding skills for reading? I don't know how that can be ignored in language learning.
Any thoughts?

Why some parents want changes to Ontario's early reading curriculum | CBC News The Right to Read Inquiry Report from the Ontario Human Rights Commission calls for revamp of province's approach to early reading.