[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Amanda Gorman and Hooked on Phonics

[Brian Cambourne]

Thanks for sharing Greg.
 I look forward to my learned RHOF colleagues’ responses. All of this is new for me.
 Brian Cambourne

On 4 Oct 2021, at 3:15 am, Greg Brooks <g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk>> wrote:

Friends
An item about Amanda Gorman in a recent issue of the Guardian newspaper in the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol>
included the intriguing fact that HoP got her started as a reader.
Back in the day (much too long ago to have been in Amanda Gorman's lifetime) I remember
1) attending a large literacy conference in Paris funded by HoP, which included a long evening dinner on a bateau mouche cruising up and down the Seine, complete with jazz trio
2) that, not long after that, HoP collapsed because of being sued for misleading advertising.
Colin Harrison (our webmeister) pointed me to the company's chequered history summarised here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics>
Now I thought that IRA (as it then was) had been involved in the suit against HoP, but there's mention of that on that wiki page.
And I gather that HoP rose from the seeming dead, not once but twice and is apparently thriving.
Over to others for more!



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