[imperio59]

Please please please, if you have young kids learning to read or who will need to soon, educate yourself by listening to the "Sold a Story" podcast from NPR (it's on Spotify and other places).

There is so much bullshit out there about how kids should be taught to read, and too many schools unfortunately still use wrong methods disproven by science.

What works is phonics, old, tried and true. If your school isn't teaching it, you need to do it yourself at home or your kids risk never being good readers.

[bashkiddie]

I did not know about phonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics

English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.

[mcmoor]

As they said, English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce