Most schools in England have a mixed approach which includes acquisition of a sight vocabulary of words that can't be phonically decoded. (Google Letters and Sounds). There are other strategies that children need, like picture cueing, reading ahead for possible meaning, and sp on, that are taught alongside word decoding. The Rose Report (2009) advocated the systematic teaching of phonics, and as so often happens in education, babies were thrown out with bath water and phonics became the universal answer. It isn't. As in everything, balance is needed.
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