Fake Phonics

Fake phonics is a style of teaching children how to read that does not really emphasize phonics, and thus fails to accomplish the goal of developing a superb reader.

Phonics is proven to be the best approach for learning how to read, and to improving one's reading skills. But there are strong political motivations for having a population that cannot read, and thus phonics is often not used as it should be.

Fake phonics fools parents into thinking their child is receiving the best education, which in fact their child is not really learning how to read using phonics.

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Books that mix phonics with methodologies of "whole language," "whole word," "word recognition," or "natural approach" are not really phonics at all.^[1]

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