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Gibson, Fred – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
After informally studying his first grade class, a teacher tentatively concluded that some students are phonetic learners and some are not. A faster method of identifying phonetic and nonphonetic learners is needed. No study that fails to consider differences in learning styles can possibly yield valid results except by chance. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Phonics
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
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
A study finds that American students are engaged with lessons only 54 percent of the time, due to external preoccupations and uninspired instruction. The Heritage Foundation's "No Excuses" report makes misleading correlations between scores, phonics, and socioeconomic variables. Florida housing prices reflect letter grades assigned to…
Descriptors: Alienation, Elementary Secondary Education, Influences, Phonics
Garan, Elaine M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
The National Reading Panel admits its evaluation report on phonics is seriously flawed as to organization, methodology, appropriateness of research base, generalizability of results, reliability, validity, and accuracy of data reported. However, an influential public-relations machine is promoting the study's favorable results as unvarnished…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Meta Analysis, Phonics, Program Evaluation
Carbo, Marie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Relates individual student experiences to illustrate that many poor readers are dropouts of programs requiring strongly analytic/auditory reading styles. Recommends adopting the "whole-language" approach for today's global learners. Uses research findings to outline instructional methods that match students' reading styles. (CJH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Motivation, Phonics, Reading Failure
Flippo, Rona F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Distressed by media headlines trumpeting supposed "reading-and-writing wars," a reading education professor discusses his Delphi survey of 11 reading experts. Experts agreed that emphasizing only phonics instruction and drill-and-practice would make learning to read difficult. Reading would be facilitated by bringing together…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Mass Media
Taylor, Denny – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
The recent Carvo/Chall phonics debate (in the September and November "Kappan" issues) reduces children's early literacy development to a battle over methods. Reductionist disagreements and simplistic notions about complex behaviors must yield to a theoretically grounded, unified approach to literacy learning and instructional practices.…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Emergent Literacy, Grade 3, Learning Processes
Early, Margaret – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
Reviews some of the studies, both empirical and theoretical, that seem to illuminate the changes affecting the teaching of reading and writing in this decade. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Smith, Frank – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Methods such as phonics or whole language can never ensure that children learn to read. Children must learn from people--from teachers initiating them into the readers' club and from authors' writings. Children's relationships with teachers, each other, and the learning task itself are supremely important. Observation, not testing, gauges student…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Observation
Krashen, Stephen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Argues that California's low fourth-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores between 1987 and 1992 were not related to the whole-language approach to reading instruction introduced in 1987. Suggests that low scores are caused by limited student access to books in school and public libraries. (Contains 36 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Books, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Wilson, G. Pat; Martens, Prisca; Arya, Poonam; Altwerger, Bess – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
Are programs that emphasize systematic phonics instruction truly superior to other types of programs for young readers, as the National Reading Panel claims? The authors conducted a study of three different programs to see what kinds of readers are actually emerging from them. Two were commercial programs that used explicit and systematic phonics…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Early Reading, Teaching Methods, Inferences
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
Zemelman, Steve; Daniels, Harvey; Bizar, Marilyn – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Despite six decades of leading researchers' research findings upholding progressive, whole-language reading approaches, consensus is lacking. Pundits tend to discredit educational research. News media promulgate tougher standards while overlooking progressive classroom successes. Parents may fear children's exploration of a wide variety of books…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Literacy Education
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