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| Decoding (Reading) | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Phoneme Grapheme… | 1 |
| Phonemic Awareness | 1 |
| Phonics | 1 |
| Politics of Education | 1 |
| Reading Instruction | 1 |
| Reading Skills | 1 |
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| Language Arts | 1 |
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| Smith, Frank | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSmith, Frank – Language Arts, 1999
Argues that systematic phonics is destined to fail as a method of reading instruction, and will make learning to read more difficult for many children. Argues it totally misunderstands or ignores how children actually learn to read; the time to learn phonics, if at all, is during reading; and phonemic awareness is spurious. Looks at ideological…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemic Awareness
