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

[Donna Alvermann]

Jim Hoffman et al.'s findings explain in part, then, why I'd get introduced
by local teachers in the mid- to late-1980s as the "whole-language
basal-reader author" when D.C. Heath was sending me out on speaking tours
(caravan style).
Donna

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:47 PM Hoffman, James V <jhoffman at austin.utexas.edu>
wrote:

> 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> 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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