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Direct linkPreston, Teresa – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Reading instruction has been the subject of significant controversy for more than five decades, and Kappan has allowed advocates of many different types of reading instruction to make their cases in the magazine's pages. Teresa Preston chronicles the history of the reading wars as they played out in Kappan. Researchers and scholars have debated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phonics, Reading Strategies, Whole Language Approach
Learning to Read: The Great Debate 20 Years Later--A Response to "Debunking the Great Phonics Myth."
Chall, Jeanne S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Criticizes Marie Carbo's article, "Debunking the Great Phonics Myth" (in Kappan's November 1988 issue), for waging a relentless debate against phonics and falsely attributing low U.S. reading achievement scores to a phonics emphasis. Clears up confusions and inaccuracies in Carbo's article concerning first and second editions of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
Carbo, Marie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Recent research on reading reveals many methods work for teaching reading. There are three individual reading styles: (1) those who need phonics, (2) those who can learn it but don't need it, and (3) those unable to learn phonics. The level of reading achievement depends on how well instructional program accommodates to an individual's reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Phonics
