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Originally Posted by Nathanael
There is none. Memorization is, in my experience, the key to learning to read. While that may be more true for Chinese, it is still true for English as well. Viz., Dolch words. Relying entirely on phonetics in teaching kids to read is -- pardon the pun :-) -- taking the slow boat to China.
--Nathanael
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There's actually a pretty big difference. Site reading only works if words are the exact same font etc. So the books that my daughter can site read, I can write the same words and she wont be able to read them. That's memorization, and effectively useless in "real" life. The only thing it's good for is cultivating an interest in reading from early on.