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sokoloff · 2023-05-09 · Original thread
I learned to read phoneticly with the Victory Drill Book and we used the revised version to teach our kids. IMO, it works extremely well in the few instances I've been close to. If our kids didn't take to it, I'm sure we'd have tried something else, but both our kids went to K-5 already able to read the simple texts used there.

We'd do just a single column of words each night to start. (The book starts with 3 letter words and just that 25-ish words was enough to get them started and interested, then we'd switch to a Dr Seuss or similar kids book for us to read to them.) Later, we'd add more words or longer words as their mastery progressed, and would pick out a challenge word from later in the book. I can still recall my older kid's joy at figuring out the word "television" when they were still at the stage of reading 3 and 4 letter words.

https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Drill-Book-Phonetic-Approach/...

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