Showing posts with label phonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phonics. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2026

The Reading Instruction Straw Man Is Burning

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  The Science of Anecdotes and Metaphors by Paul Thomas "Zero Phonics. This view claims that direct teaching is not necessary or even ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Scripted “Parrot” Learning Is Not in the Best Interests of Children and Society

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Reshaping Reading Instruction In U.S. Public Schools to Support the 60% of Children in America who are Coping with Adverse Childhood Experie...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Reading "Research" Presents More Questions Than Answers

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Stephen Krashen recently noted that a " group called The74’s posted an outrageous but slick-looking column":   “ Curriculum case s...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Describing Whole Language: Response to Wexler

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  Describing Whole Language Natalie Wexler’s characterization of the nature and effect of whole language in her article in Forbes (April 12)...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

British Study Finds Phonics Fanaticism "is uninformed and failing children"

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 A new British study reported in The Guardian finds that the imbalance created by dependence on phonics in reading instruction to the excl...
Monday, February 01, 2021

Part 2: Red State Governors Pick Up Where DeVos Left Off

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More than 15 years before the Trumpers arrived in DC to initiate the latest "back to basic stupidity" era in all things social, cu...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Is Phonics Effective?

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Latest meta-analysis available here .  Abstract below: There is a widespread consensus in the research community that reading instruction...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Gerald Coles Documents the Re-emergence of the Phonics Zombies

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…it is the sign of a competent “crap detector” that he is not completely captivated by the arbitrary abstractions of the community in whi...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Gary Stager's "The Surge Against First Graders"

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From Huffington Post , posted May 8 : by Gary Stager When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been ...