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Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] skribe@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago

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.

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