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Direct linkStrauss, Steven L.; Altwerger, Bess – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
US government mandates to implement intensive phonics instruction in elementary classrooms invoke an alleged scientific superiority of this approach over more meaning-centered models. But curiously absent from this scientific enterprise is a study of the phonics system itself. Advocates of intensive phonics have not demonstrated that the commonly…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Phonics, Whole Language Approach, Reading Instruction
Mather, Nancy; Sammons, Janice; Schwartz, Jonathan – Reading Teacher, 2006
In 1990, Cunningham developed a Names Test as a quick and easy screening tool for teachers to obtain information about a student's decoding skills. In 1994, Duffelmeyer, Kruse, Merkley, and Fyfe added 10 names to the original Names Test and developed a comprehensive scoring matrix to increase diagnostic information from the test, based on error…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Beginning Reading, Reading Failure, Phonics
Download full textNathanson, Steven A.; Nathanson, Marsha L. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
In this paper, we discuss the link between effective literacy practices recommended by the International Reading Association and current research on how the brain learns derived from MRI and PET scan studies begun in the 1990's. Five key areas of brain-based research discussed include time and attention, emotion, the nature of memory, the learning…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Brain, Research
