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		SideburnsOfDoom on April 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wr... > kids best learn to read via phonics. parent comment didn't say "learn best", it said "learn first".

pitaj on April 17, 2023 [–]

Even in phonics, kids learn common words like "the" by sight. But that doesn't scale. People don't learn to recognize every word as an individual token.

SideburnsOfDoom on April 17, 2023 | [–]

> But that doesn't scale.

You're saying that they move on from it. That doesn't contradict the "learn first" part, does it?

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