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1. When I was a kid, we had SRA

Sun Oct 15, 2023, 11:42 AM

Oct 2023

I think that's what it was called. You chose your reading level. I enjoyed it

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When I was a kid, we had SRA XanaDUer2 Oct 2023 #1

It was multicolored XanaDUer2 Oct 2023 #10

LOL. I just posted below about phonics! CrispyQ Oct 2023 #18

I really liked that system. 2naSalit Oct 2023 #11

I remember those treestar Oct 2023 #21

Kick dalton99a Oct 2023 #2

I don't remember how reading was taught at school. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #3

Phonics "sound it out" is a phrase I dimly remember. yorkster Oct 2023 #5

I do remember... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #9

"Sound it out." I remember that. I just don't remember learning to read Ocelot II Oct 2023 #24

Right With Ya! ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #26

Yes, reading cereal boxes! Ocelot II Oct 2023 #27

I took a "teaching to read" course cyclonefence Oct 2023 #4

My brother was in one of the initial grades in the '60s, RicROC Oct 2023 #7

See and Say was a disaster unc70 Oct 2023 #15

As someone who taught reading for more than thirty years senseandsensibility Oct 2023 #12

My children - now in their 30s - were subjected to this approach. yardwork Oct 2023 #13

I knew this was true ExWhoDoesntCare Oct 2023 #16

When I was a kid we had phonics in first grade. CrispyQ Oct 2023 #17

Similar Sympthsical Oct 2023 #20

LOL. I'd forgotten the schwa. CrispyQ Oct 2023 #25

In '89 I was in an ed psych program. Igel Oct 2023 #23

I never heard of this "Calkins Method" before now... jmowreader Oct 2023 #28