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Is phonics controversial? But how is it possible that students are lagging in reading so badly?
An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics
As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.
Lagging student performance and newly relevant research, though, have prompted some educators to reconsider the ABCs of reading instruction. Their effort gained new urgency after national test scores last year showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and bad ones. https://www.dailynewsrooms.com/gener...cores-phonics/
It alternated in and out of favor in educational trends most of my own schooling, and in my time teaching reading and language arts. I would never categorize the phonetic approach as "nontraditional."
The idea that a phonetic approach to decoding skills and "instilling a love of literature" are mutually exclusive is bizarre.
It alternated in and out of favor in educational trends most of my own schooling, and in my time teaching reading and language arts. I would never categorize the phonetic approach as "nontraditional."
The idea that a phonetic approach to decoding skills and "instilling a love of literature" are mutually exclusive is bizarre.
It alternated in and out of favor in educational trends most of my own schooling, and in my time teaching reading and language arts. I would never categorize the phonetic approach as "nontraditional."
The idea that a phonetic approach to decoding skills and "instilling a love of literature" are mutually exclusive is bizarre.
THIS!
You know, most of these education trends have some value... But they are all just tools, and replacing all your hammers with drills is just dumb.
I mean, one addresses the mechanics of decoding words, and is unrelated to literary appreciation. Children who don't decode at all yet, like my children, who are two and four, have of love of literature that stems from being read to daily from birth. As they learn letter recognition and phonemic awareness, they're not suddenly going to start hating a good story.
You know, most of these education trends have some value... But they are all just tools, and replacing all your hammers with drills is just dumb.
And all-or-nothing approaches are ridiculous. So much throwing out the baby with the bath water, instead of incorporating many elements of evidence-based strategies. Sometimes you need hammers and drills to do a complete job.
Is phonics controversial? But how is it possible that students are lagging in reading so badly?
An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics
As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.
Lagging student performance and newly relevant research, though, have prompted some educators to reconsider the ABCs of reading instruction. Their effort gained new urgency after national test scores last year showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and bad ones. https://www.dailynewsrooms.com/gener...cores-phonics/
There is incredible irony in that statement about which side is traditional.
"They" also need to recognize that the biggest shift that has occurred in tandem with plummeting reading proficiency is not regularly alternating teaching philosophies and approaches. It is how children are read to at an ever-decreasing rate, and how increasingly rare it is that children are encouraged outside of school to read for pleasure or have it modeled.
Is phonics controversial? But how is it possible that students are lagging in reading so badly?
An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics
As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.
Lagging student performance and newly relevant research, though, have prompted some educators to reconsider the ABCs of reading instruction. Their effort gained new urgency after national test scores last year showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and bad ones. https://www.dailynewsrooms.com/gener...cores-phonics/
lol. Since when did skipping phonics and "instilling a love of literature" get labeled "traditional"? Wow! First of all, before you can acquire a love of literature, you need to be able to read Dick, Jane and Spot. From there, you need to be able to read at graduated levels of difficulty, before you get to literature. If instilling a love of literature was ever traditional, somehow I missed it. Literature was not taught in a way that made it comprehensible to me and many of my peers. The selections teachers chose were traumatizing.
I thought phonics was traditional, while anything else was a fad-driven abandonment of what works. IDK, I guess now, up is down, and black is white. Whatever.
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