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Originally Posted by flamesfever
Why do you think programs like "Hooked on Phonics" were so popular?...because phonics was no longer on the curriculum. Fortunately, many of the more responsible teachers continued to teach it, in spite of its removal.
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I think learning methods based on phonics are a big part of the problem, actually. Students learn the sounds of words, but context and meaning are not stressed. If you hear someone confuse "Your" and "You're", they probably learned from a phonics based system- the words are homonyms, and sounds are what's stressed in phonics.