I came across an interesting article the other day which I was very quick to disregard as it did not fit my beliefs about reading. It was slamming reading recovery techniques and promoting a fully HF word and spelling rule based approach to teaching reading. Today I found a nice counter blog article. This article focuses on the importance of meaning in reading. And that while it may be "guessing" at times, using the context of the story to attempt an unknown word, is bringing meaning to the text, and is that not what reading is.... This article really backs up my style of teaching reading, "learning to read involves much more than learning to sound out letters and identify words."
When I can find the other article again I will attach it also. Very conflicting points of view.
https://literacyforpleasure.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/why-children-should-be-encouraged-to-only-ever-use-phonics-as-a-back-up-strategy/
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