I don't know about that theory exactly, but I can tell you how I was taught to read.Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
I learned before I started school because my mother taught me - first using letter blocks, which we used to form simple words, and then simply practicing. We'd take simple books and then I would read out loud. When I got it wrong, she'd correct me, and the errors gradually got fewer and fewer. It was as simple as that. By the time I started school, I could read anything, basically, and I had never been taught any "rules" at all.
It doesn't take long before you pick up the "pattern" of English pronunciation. I think anybody could learn to read in the same way.