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Title: Misreading Reading : The Bad Science That Hurts Children by Gerald Coles ISBN: 0-325-00060-3 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 14 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Can Coles read?
Comment: I am a school psyc and former reading clinician. I've coordinated summer interventions for three years (K-3). Coles misread the reading panel. He picked only a few studies out of many. The reading panel research is not at narrow as he claims. The NRP attempted to lay out the "anatomy" of how children learn to read and narrowed down the best "types" of programs which tended to be phonics "based." The NRP did compare phonics against whol language and Reading Recovery. Also, most of the researchers from what I can tell WERE former teachers who have moved up to research. Second, assessments did include reading at higher levels than phonemic awareness and decoding. Don't let his rhetoric fool you. Coles is just bitter because is ideology was just not supported. He needs to let go like a true researcher and revise his ideas. Research clearly shows his whole language approach makes reading abilities plumet downward on well designed studies. A generation has been lost to those teachings. I don't think Coles takes the reading problems serious enough. The NRP is a huge project relatively, and the quality of sciency involved is just above Coles. This book only increased my awareness of how uninformed and resistant many educators are.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Clear Update on the Hottest topics in reading
Comment: This the second book I have read by Coles and I continued to be impressed by his clarity and incisive thinking. This is a great book for all those who feel so battered about by all the arguements for and against the really topical issues in reading such and phonemic awareness and pathological reasons for reading difficulty to name just a few. Cole's summaries of the most significant research are a Godsend to those who do not have the time or resources to review all the current research themselves. I work as a Literacy Advisor in schools and this book has helped me in my understanding of the issues.
Rating: 1
Summary: Coles Misreads Reading Research
Comment: The book should be entitled "misreading reading research." There have been great advances in the past three decades in understanding how better to teach children to read, with much of the work being very good science that decidedly is helping children and has the potential to help many more children if more widely applied. Every page of Coles' book contains at least one assertion that is at a minimum debatable. I gave this a 1-star rating only because zero stars was not an option.
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Title: Resisting Reading Mandates: How to Triumph with the Truth by Elaine M. Garan ISBN: 0325004463 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum : How Ideology Trumped Evidence by Richard L. Allington ISBN: 0325005133 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 05 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Reading the Naked Truth : Literacy, Legislation, and Lies by Gerald Coles ISBN: 0325003378 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs by Richard L. Allington ISBN: 0321063961 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level by M.D. Sally Shaywitz ISBN: 0375400125 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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