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

[Donna Alvermann]

P.S. So the teachers have had it figured out all along, but the
powers-that-be still don't accept their message (or their voices). This has
the makings of a powerful meme if someone is good at making such. Donna

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 10:13 PM Donna Alvermann <dalverma at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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