This link https://justpaste.it/k-3andell demonstrates the lack of performance for US English teaching methods over the years to break through student reading proficiency rates, with 3rd graders having a failure rate of typically 20%. It shows that systematic phonics is mostly not taught in US. It shows that English teachers shy away from phonetics as an abstruse and English unfriendly system to use. It also shows that teaching k-1 kids has been successful in the past using phonetics-first approaches. Finally, It demonstrates the user friendliness of truespel phonetics for teaching k-1 reading and ELL pronunciation.
Bottom line is that you can't teach English phonics of phonetics without a user friendly phonetic notation. Truespel phonetics was designed for this purpose tailored for US English . Free tutorials and 2-way converter are available at http://truespel.com and can be learned in minutes by adult students and teachers. This gap must be filled to increase reading proficiency rates.and ELL pronunciation accuracy. The evidence here is clear.