{"id":94,"date":"2026-04-27T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:54:08","slug":"the-cost-of-over-teaching-phonics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/the-cost-of-over-teaching-phonics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Over-Teaching Phonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/cost-of-over-teaching-phonics-reading\/\">Liana Loewus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But to Seidenberg, that\u2019s way too many. He\u2019s working on a somewhat radical idea: a program that teaches just 100 words, which are carefully selected for particular phonics properties to help students crack the code on their own. \u201cThe goal is to shed the training wheels and get to reading,\u201d he says. It\u2019s an unusual\u2014and as yet untested\u2014idea with a long hill to climb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liana Loewus: But to Seidenberg, that\u2019s way too many. He\u2019s working on a somewhat radical idea: a program that teaches just 100 words, which are carefully selected for particular phonics properties to help students crack the code on their own. \u201cThe goal is to shed the training wheels and get to reading,\u201d he says. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}