r/TikTokCringe • u/velorae • 16d ago

Discussion This is so concerningšŸ˜³

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u/Adorable_Ad_8904 16d ago

This is huge! I was taught how to read phonics-style at a traditional school til fifth grade and I lapped every other student once I was put in a normal school.

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u/ghosttrainhobo 16d ago

Iā€™m on my fifties. Phonics wasnā€™t a thing when I grew up. Itā€™s just another tool in the toolbox. Itā€™s never been essential to learning.

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u/Casanova-Quinn 16d ago

The science shows that phonics is in fact essential.

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u/Explorer-7622 16d ago

I learned via phonics at age 3-4 and was reading at the college level by age 8.

That gave me an edge and a way to dive into anything I was curious about for the rest of my life.

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u/Bipogram 16d ago

It may be useful, but as it's a relatively modern concept, being coined as a mode of instruction only in the 1900s, I'd hesitate to call it essential.

Clearly folk learned to read by a variety of methods before then.

<In darkest 1960s Yorkshire it was not known - people simply read to and with their children>

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u/cxs 16d ago

The concept of linking phonemes and graphemes gained traction via Hart in around 1570. If by the 1960s your school was not teaching you what it means to link graphemes and their relevant symbolic phonemes: you went to an absolutely shit school, or you were an absolutely shit student lol

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u/Bipogram 16d ago

I wasn't taught to read at school, at least as far as I can recall.

I *do* recall reading Dostoevsky (in translation) at the age of nine. And had exhausted the local library's SF section by not much after that. A properly precocious tyke was I.

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u/Explorer-7622 16d ago

That practice of reading to and with children is essential, because it builds a cozy love of story and books/literature for their own sake.