[Reading-hall-of-fame] Has brain science changed how you teach about readi

[David Olson]

Dear Colleagues:

Can anyone help refute the claim in S. Duhaene's "Reading in the Brain"
that "the reading wars culminated in 1987 when the state of Californa...
pass bills favoring the whole-language apprroach... and reading scores
plummeted" in 1993 and 1994.  Hence, they went back to phonics training. 
Perhaps it is true but I would be surprised if the case were that clear.

No doubt children must learn letter-sound correspondence; need they always
be "taught explicitly"?  Perhaps they can be taught on a JIT (just in
time) basis, ie. when they are needed.  I suppose this was what drove the
combattants into the trenches (I hope not again).  

David Olson


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