[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: ILA on phonics

[Judith Green]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for sharing this.  I skimmed it and it is scary and re-inforces my 6 decades of understanding that ILA (then IRA) did not understand how children learning language, how to analyze reading processes and practices, or how to trace developing literacy processes across time and opportunities for learning.  This does not situate phonics in the more complex understandings of meaning construction, prediction of meanings from text or how literary text shape us to be particular kids of readers.  This could lead those who seek phonics as the center to dismiss once again the complex nature of engaging authors in the text and learning to engage with texts.

Really does not reflect what we know about what constitutes a reading process or language processes or event learning with and through texts within and across disciplines, educational contexts or social worlds.  Scares me as it seems to ligitimize one approach as READING.

Just sharing,

Judith

> On Jul 20, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Folks: Regarding discussions on phonics, the ILA has put out a report calling for explicit and systematic phonics instruction:
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> https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/ila-meeting-challenges-early-literacy-phonics-instruction.pdf <https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/ila-meeting-challenges-early-literacy-phonics-instruction.pdf>  
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