When I was in teacher's college, we were taught *not* to teach like this, that it was too old-fashioned and teacher-centred and didn't allow for enough student inquiry. The pendulum has now swung back in most places, thank goodness, and many kids are now getting this kind of high-quality phonics instruction, but we did a whole lot of harm for decades by listening to the people we called experts back then, apparently without good reason.