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		pitaj on April 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wr... Even in phonics, kids learn common words like "the" by sight. But that doesn't scale. People don't learn to recognize every word as an individual token.

SideburnsOfDoom on April 17, 2023 [–]

> But that doesn't scale.

You're saying that they move on from it. That doesn't contradict the "learn first" part, does it?

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