[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: The meme "Learning to read, Reading to learn"

[Shanahan, Timothy E]

The older that we’ve been able to find of that combination was in the 1917 Education-Journal, volume 18, pp. 443-444 (slightly older than the oldest cite we have come up with for “every teacher a teacher of reading”. However, in both cases, quotes were used around the terms suggesting that they had an even older usage (but older usages we haven’t been able to find.

In this case, teachers are asked to explain the difference between reading "learning to read" and "reading to learn” from the teacher’s concern… and the answer explains that many children unable to read in their native language fail subjects like geography simply due to their inability to read.

There must be older uses of these terms, but whether that was just how these issues were discussed in the old normal schools and thus weren’t recorded or there is an older cite out there to be found.

tim


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Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] The meme "Learning to read, Reading to learn"

Reading Hall of Famers,

I’m talking to a group of policy folks this week—many from states where there is legislation (or legislation pending) on retention tied to third-grade reading benchmarks.  Often, as part of these mandates, the meme “Learning to read, Reading to learn” comes up.

Here’s the Google n-gram diagram for the appearance of the two phrases.  Unfortunately, I haven’t mastered the art of figuring out how to zero in on books where the two phrases are used together.
[cid:76B51833-D000-4A44-B03B-18536F5D43B6 at pacbell.net]


The earliest article that I’ve found is from 1961 (by a librarian writing in a Canadian veterinary journal) but the title was apparently simply used to catch readers’ attention (the assumptions that we usually associate with the phrase aren’t described).

In a 2012 chapter Marcia Invernizzi and Latisha Hayes tie the phrase to Chall’s (1983) Stages of Reading Development.  But I know that I heard this phrase long before that.

Any ideas of who or where this meme originated?

Freddy

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