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

[Greg Brooks]

Tom
You are brilliant, as always. I could not recall the exact circumstances,
so huge thanks for bolstering my improving forgettery.


On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 17:27, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gregg: I remember well that evening on the Seine in Paris following
> meetings of the World Symposium on Family Literacy (a term and concept
> coined by our fellow HoF member Denny Taylor). Anyone wanting to take a
> look at the final report of the Symposium can find a copy online at:
> https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117073?posInSet=2&queryId=2d2f796f-e210-4d2d-a71e-1cf6d7d0750b
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> Tom Sticht
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> On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:16 AM Greg Brooks <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
>> 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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