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

[Mckeown, Margaret G]

Having read the ILA report as well as the comments from the HoF-ers here, it seems that most comments focus on complaints about what the report did not cover. Please consider:

  *   The report is not intended as a broad overview on developing reading ability. It is a Brief (as per the title) and its purpose was to communicate on phonics because the questions of whether and which phonics instruction should occur have come to the fore (again).
  *   Second, the report does not ignore other aspects of reading, including for example:
     *   “Of course, equal amounts of time need to be spent on teaching the meanings of these words,”
     *   Citing the need for “application to authentic reading and writing experiences.”
     *   “The goal of phonics instruction is to develop students’ ability to read connected text independently.”

I understand the frustration of not seeing a full representation of literacy portrayed, but that is not the purpose of this ILA communication.

A more productive use of our efforts might be to talk about how doing phonics right – explicitly, engagingly, efficiently – opens up time for all the wonderful language and literacy experiences students need, and also leads students to be able to take advantage of those experiences.

Moddy McKeown

From: <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 5:33 PM
To: "Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] ILA on phonics

Folks: Regarding discussions on phonics, the ILA has put out a report calling for explicit and systematic phonics instruction:

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/ila-meeting-challenges-early-literacy-phonics-instruction.pdf<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.literacyworldwide.org%2Fdocs%2Fdefault-source%2Fwhere-we-stand%2Fila-meeting-challenges-early-literacy-phonics-instruction.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cmckeown%40pitt.edu%7Ca143b2205e2e4e600b9908d70d59f2af%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C1%7C636992552320664455&sdata=NGj1g%2FKMOzjW1ig1Hj023i80yYpd30k95eQ2LkvaYAk%3D&reserved=0>

Tom Sticht



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