[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: FW: PBS feature on "Dyslexia" and the "new approach" in Arkansas

[Hoffman, James V]

Just to follow up on Tim’s note . . (Jim Baumann can correct me on this) When we replicated the First R study at the height of the whole language movement . . the vast majority of primary grade  teachers across the US  identified as whole language teachers and the vast majority of them reported teaching phonics.

On May 1, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Rasinski, Tim <trasinsk at kent.edu<mailto:trasinsk at kent.edu>> wrote:

In Ohio for the past 20 or so years every teacher wishing to be licensed , P-12, is required to take a course on phonics.   So I don’t think teachers in Ohio can claim that they are unaware of phonics instruction.     I know of no district in Ohio that doesn’t  require that it be taught in the primary grades.     Still, I don’t think our reading scores have improved much, if at all, during this period.

I agree phonics should be taught, but it is NOT the panacea for all reading difficulties.     We all know that, why is it so difficult to communicate this to the public?

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Professor of Literacy Education
Rebecca Tolle and Burton W. Gorman Chair
    in Educational Leadership
Kent State University

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