re: #173 Blind Frog Belly White

The Older Boy is one of the few I’ve ever known who seems to have learned reading ENTIRELY by word recognition. We could never figure out where to hook the phonics on him.

That’s a very good thing. Phonics is why “Johnny Can’t Read”. It may work in a language with totally phonetic orthography like Finnish or Korean, but in English or French or Gaelic, you have to learn each word as a unit, like a Chinese character. Otherwise, you’re learning to decipher, not to read—like me with Cyrillic or Greek, spelling it out letter by letter.