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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 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Strong arguments against heavy phonics
Comment: Prof. Garan stunned the academic world recently with her brilliant critique of the National Reading Panel's report, which appeared in several prestigious journals, including the Phi Delta Kappan. The National Reading Panel summary claimed that intensive phonics was the true path for all readers from kindergarten to grade 6. Garan showed that this conclusion was not even consistent with the report's own data. Heavy phonics only really helps when children read regularly spelled words in isolation. It has very little effect when children read real texts. President Bush's reading plan is based on the National Reading Panel report; Garan's critique reveals important flaws in the report. Unlike the National Reading Panel report, Garan's book is very readable, very understandable. Those interested in more on this topic might also want to read recent books by Gerald Coles, such as Misreading Reading and Reading Lessons, Frank Smith's still classic book, Reading without Nonsense, and Ken Goodman's What's Whole about Whole Language.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading
Comment: Elaine Garan has performed a great public service. Very readable and riveting, this short book reveals what happens when politicians put the fox in charge of the henhouse. In clear, cogent fashion Garan uses her formidable research skills to distinguish between fact and fabrication in the political mandate to muzzle teachers and force them to deliver reading instruction in a lockstep, fastfood format.
Every parent and grandparent who wants their children to love books must read this book.
Every teacher who wants to take back her classroom must read this book.
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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: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Misreading Reading : The Bad Science That Hurts Children by Gerald Coles ISBN: 0325000603 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 14 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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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: What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian ISBN: 0071383263 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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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