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Q Our son was already registered for junior kindergarten before we became aware that you believe in phonic-based reading instruction. He will be 5 in about three months. The private school we are ...

When I first met “Juan,” then a 2nd grader, he knew about half of his consonant sounds and none of his vowels. I was a new K-5 special education teacher at the time, now more than a dozen years ago, ...