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Post by jisp on Feb 5, 2019 15:58:32 GMT -5
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 6, 2019 14:32:12 GMT -5
Thank you for posting this, Jisp. I'd recommend it to ALL parents, not just those with struggling readers!
As the article says, "Most teachers nationwide are not being taught reading science in their teacher preparation programs because many deans and faculty in colleges of education either don't know the science or dismiss it. As a result of their intransigence, millions of kids have been set up to fail."
...The battle between whole language and phonics got so heated that the U.S. Congress eventually got involved, convening a National Reading Panel to review all the research on reading. In 2000, the panel released a report. The sum of the research showed that explicitly teaching children the relationship between sounds and letters improved reading achievement. The panel concluded that phonics lessons help kids become better readers. There is no evidence to say the same about whole language....
...Too many teachers, school administrators and college professors don't know the science. Kelly Butler, of the Barksdale Reading Institute, an organization founded with a $100-million gift from the former CEO of Netscape, is betting that teaching them the science is the answer. "Part of my optimism about this is it's not like we're setting out to try to figure out how to teach reading so we can then teach everybody how to do it," she said. "We know how to do it."
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