January 22, 2020 12.49am AEDT Updated January 22, 2020 3.18am AEDT
by Kindel Turner Nash, Leah Panther
A growing number of influential journalists, dyslexia advocates, politicians and some local school officials argue that there’s only one way to teach reading. They advocate for having all public schools teach phonics between kindergarten and third grade…
These days, phonics-first advocates call their favored approach “the science of reading.” They say it has been proven to work through rigorous scientific testing. They dismiss all other methods.
These “science of reading” proponents fail to mention that many methods of teaching reading do include teaching letters and sounds, along with surrounding students with interesting books and exciting texts, building background knowledge and using multiple teaching techniques like shared reading, guided reading and individual instruction…
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