@eaton I can see my grandkid being taught using a blended approach. They understand sounding out words, & understand coaching to figure out words from context. (I learned in a blended way, though in retrospect I think that was self-taught - I was so far in advance of my grade level that I was reading a lot of words I never had occasion to pronounce. E.g. I was literally in my 30s when i realized one day that 'misled' was pronounced 'mis-led', not 'meiseled.'