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Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics
(www.theguardian.com)
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It seems odd that they're talking about phonics being a recent thing. At the risk of dating myself I remember a phonics based system being used when I was in primary school in the late 90s, though I couldn't tell you much more since that's a while ago now and I generally spent my time in those lessons reading rather than paying attention anyway. Did it drop out of use in the meantime or something?
Phonetics was used in WA at least as early as the 70s.
My understanding is that another method, where kids were expected to just spell and pronounce words as they believed, replaced it. Unfortunately, the alternate method was essentially dogshit, and there's been a push to return to phonetics over the last decade or so. The ABC or SBS did a doco on it.
I remember being taught phonics in primary school in the 2000's, and I went to a public school so I don't understand why we think this is revolutionary either. Maybe it's just new in VIC? I'm from QLD