How To Teach Reading
The Great Debate
Effective Reading Practices through the Decades -
After reading the article entitled, "American Reading Instruction since 1967", by P. David Pearson, here is a synthesis of some important highlights from the article.
- 1965 Lyndon B Johnsen’s Great Society platform created a program called “Title I” in order to address the need for compensatory education for all children. Children specifically with disadvantages regarding disability, and financial hardships. The article Every child, Every Day, by Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel supports the decades old Title I program.
- 1966 There were a number of studies published in a brand new journal called “Reading Research Quarterly”. The studies were funded by the Cooperative Research Branch of the United States Office of Education, in response to the long term debate about the best way to teach reading. On the heels of this publication came Jeanne Chall’s book, Learning to Read: The Great Debate. An article by Jennifer Monahagn, Jeanne Chall (1921-1999), supported Chall's philosophy in best reading practices for an effective reading instruction. Both of these events had a profound effect on the course of reading intstruction, and publishers began to create what became know as skills management systems.
- The 1980’s and 1990’s reading was embraced by Linguists, Psycholinguists, Psychologists, Sociolinguists, and Literary Theorists. These disciplines started talking about “differences”, not “deficits” in reading and the way in which reading was taught and comprehended, and the relevence of texts within a community. “Because of the work of Sociolinguists, the meaning of the word context expanded to include not only what was on the page, but what Bloome and Greene referred to as the instructional, non-instructional, and home and community contexts of literacy.” (Read : American Reading Instruction since 1967)
Video Reflections-
In the video, Teacher Candace Bookman reaches out to disadvantaged readers, and those ready to move ahead, by using effective reading strategies from long ago. These strategies are still being used today to help increase student's reading levels. Some examples include the use of guided instruction through phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency. This video definitely supports the articles findings.
How could you incorporate effective reading strategies from long ago into your classroom today?
In the video, Teacher Candace Bookman reaches out to disadvantaged readers, and those ready to move ahead, by using effective reading strategies from long ago. These strategies are still being used today to help increase student's reading levels. Some examples include the use of guided instruction through phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency. This video definitely supports the articles findings.
How could you incorporate effective reading strategies from long ago into your classroom today?
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