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• hga 13y ago
  Errr, entire forests have been consumed in the fight over phonics and teaching reading, what in particular would you like to know? Note also this is intensely political, e.g. I just noticed the Whole World article on Wikipedia was purged, apparently without a replacement or significant inclusion of what that was all about. The Whole Language article pretends this all started in the 1960s, instead of 1920s or so. And, absolutely seriously, after poking around some more, it looks like a whole bunch of history has been airbrushed out of Wikipedia, not sure much of anything goes back further than the '50s. For a tl;dr (heh), Progressives in the early-mid part of the century decided rote memorization was bad per se, a new "Whole Word" method was developed but only? tested on children of University of College professors, who would have been in the large cohort of children who'll learn reading pretty much on their own, by the mid-50s it was widely realized that this left behind a larger cohort who can't learn how to read without phonics, and to this day the issue is still a battle to the knife.