My life has had very little excitement lately. Mostly, I drink a lot of iced coffee, teach, and study for the GREs. In the two weeks before summer vacation starts my co-teacher and I decided to do a remedial phonics unit instead of starting a new chapter. The problem is that the previous 4 teachers insisted on only teaching the book--which has absolutely no phonics. That means that for the students who aren't inordinately bright or attending hagwons, they don't learn how to read though they might recognize some vocabulary words.
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