[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Do we agree?

[Brian Cambourne]

I agree with the general thrust of what you advocate Stephen.
I would like to add that we need to emphasise that the major purpose of “phonics” is to encode   the meanings one wants to communicate to alphabetic symbols  not to decode alphabetic symbols to sound.
As such phonics should be taught in t he context learning to write and spell not in the conterxt of learning to read.
 Brian Cambourne

On 11 May 2019, at 4:06 pm, Stephen Krashen <skrashen at yahoo.com<mailto:skrashen at yahoo.com>> wrote:

The problem is not “phonics” but “extensive, systematic” phonics. Do we agree with this statement?



"...phonics instruction should aim to teach only the most important and regular of letter-to-sound relationships ... once the basic relationships have been taught, the best way to get children to refine and extend their knowledge of letter- sound correspondences is through repeated opportunities to read. If this position is correct, then much phonics instruction is overly subtle and probably unproductive" (Anderson, Heibert, Scott and Wilkinson, 1985, p.38).”

Anderson, R., Hiebert, E., Scott, J., & Wilkinson, I. 1985. Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Education.




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