[Reading-hall-of-fame] Huey book

[Jay Samuels]

Dear Bob, Tom, Elizabeth, and Mike,

Yes, Huey was amazing. There is a section of his book on automaticity and fluency in which he captures much of what we would know about these topics 100 years later. Yet, it is interesting to hold up his book to see if it reflects our field today. Did you know he devoted about two chapters to eye movements in reading? Then it was a hot topic, Huey picked up on the Javal discovery and even had pages devoted to methods researchers used to study eye movements  So, what was a hot topic then is not so today.  The Cassidy and Cassidy experts who decide on what is hot and what is not in reading, do not even have eye movements as a topic to evaluate. Jay samuels






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Well, after all -- hoorah!  Bob Calfee

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>Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:58:44 -0700
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>tsticht at znet.com)
>Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Huey book
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>Colleagues: Starting in 2007 a group of the RHF started calling for 
>celebrating the 100th anniversary of E. B. Huey's Psychology and 
>Pedagogy of Reading. In this regard, we asked the IRA to reprint the 
>book but I didn't think the IRA wanted to. But a group of us put 
>together a symposium for the IRA meeting of 2008 in Atlanta and had a 
>good group attend the symposium. Now I have found that the IRA has put 
>together a reprint of the book and it can now be ordered from the IRA. 
>Here is some info about the book which sells for about $40 for non-IRA 
>members. Tom Sticht
>
>The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading
>Special Edition
>Edmund Burke Huey
>
>The longevity of Huey’s work is impressive. It is as relevant today as 
>it was in 1908 or 1968. Much of what he wrote could be found in many 
>contemporary works on reading as well as in the reading research 
>literature. In rereading Huey, we can truly see how far we have come in 
>answering the questions surrounding how we read and learn to read.
>— Michael L. Kamil and Elizabeth B. Bernhardt, from the Introduction
>
>
>
>Few works have had as profound an influence on reading research and 
>scholarship as this classic. Originally published in 1908 and 
>rereleased in 1968, it remains one of the most cited books in reading 
>and related disciplines. Essential for anyone interested in the history 
>of reading and reading instruction, it is a must-have volume for 
>scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of the development of 
>current thinking in the field.
>
>With its discussion of topics from word recognition to fluency to 
>comprehension to instructional methods, readers will find The 
>Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading as thought provoking today as it was 100 years ago.
>The new introduction to this special edition, by leading scholars 
>Michael Kamil and Elizabeth Bernhardt, highlights where Huey’s work 
>seems particularly prescient, discusses recent research that calls some 
>of his findings into question, and speculates about the issues that he 
>would find important in today’s education climate.
>
>Introduction © 2009 | 336 pp.
>ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-696-9
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