Has anyone used "Hooked on Phonics" to teach preschoolers! Can an education specialist comment?

Question

My girlfriend has a daycare and truely wants to help underprivileged children and she feels it starts with helping them to learn to read, i suggested "Hooked on Phonics" and she thinks it would not work. I understand the tool has various age ranges. I thought this might help her to get additional children at her daycare and I wanted to purchase it for her center.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I am a teacher in the Resource Room working with 4th and 5th graders who cannot read due to bad phonics. The problem with reading phoneticly is that it creats poor spelling!

Example:

"Mi hors iz in a kr. Mi doktr iz nise."