ERIC Number: EJ1348887
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Apr
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0502
EISSN: EISSN-2642-8857
The Status of Phonics Instruction: Learning from the Teachers
Sanden, Sherry; MacPhee, Deborah A.; Hartle, Luminita; Poggendorf, Stephen; Zuiderveen, Caleb
Reading Horizons, v61 n1 Article 5 p69-92 Apr 2022
Increasingly alarmed by instructional mandates more founded on journalistic rhetoric and popular opinion than on research findings or practitioner expertise, researchers gathered survey data from teachers to better understand the status of K-2 phonics instruction. Data demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of these K-2 teachers teach phonics, rely on a published curriculum, and teach phonics in systematic and explicit ways. These findings contradict media assertions that reading classrooms are largely devoid of phonics instruction and that teachers fail to include phonics as an important element of their reading instruction. Implications include calls for researchers to explore what teachers can share that helps us better understand what happens in the name of classroom phonics instruction and for decision makers to assume an informed stance before mandating instructional practices based on a narrow understanding of the needs of young readers and the teachers who support them.
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Primary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Emergent Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Curriculum
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
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