From David.Reinking at uga.edu Fri Apr 7 17:06:07 2023 From: David.Reinking at uga.edu (David P. Reinking) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 16:06:07 +0000 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] article on legislating phonics Message-ID: Dear Hall of Fame colleagues, I thought many of you might be interested in the attached article entitled ?Legislating Phonics: Settled Science or Political Polemics? that George Hruby, Vicki Risko and I recently published in Teachers College Record. Thanks to the generous support of the University of Kentucky, which paid SAGE?s fees, the article is open access. It may be freely accessed and disseminated, including at the following website: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01614681231155688 Here is the abstract: In this commentary, we identify a phonics-first ideology and its polemical distortions of research and science to promote legislation that constrains and diminishes the teaching of reading. We affirm our own, and a majority of reading professionals?, commitment to teaching phonics. However, we argue that phonics instruction is more effective when embedded in a more comprehensive program of literacy instruction that accommodates students? individual needs and multiple approaches to teaching phonics?a view supported by substantial research. After summarizing the politicization of phonics in the United States, we critique a legislated training course for teachers in Tennessee as representative of how a phonics-first ideology is expressed polemically for political purposes. We contrast it with a more collaboratively developed, balanced, nonlegislative approach in the previous governor?s administration. Specifically, the training course (a) makes an unfounded claim that there is a national reading crisis that can be traced to insufficient or inappropriate phonics instruction; (b) distorts, misrepresents, or omits relevant research findings and recommendations, most prominently from the report of the National Reading Panel; (c) inaccurately suggests that ?balanced literacy instruction? is ?whole language? instruction in disguise; and (d) wrongly claims that its views of phonics are based on a settled science of reading. David David Reinking Distinguished Professor of Education Emeritus Clemson University, and Adjunct Professor of Education Dept. of Language and Literacy Education Mary Frances Early College of Education University of Georgia David.Reinking @uga.edu http://www.davidreinking.info/ orcid.org/0000-0001-8040-6673 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From ppearson at berkeley.edu Fri Apr 7 21:41:42 2023 From: ppearson at berkeley.edu (P David Pearson) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 13:41:42 -0700 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] TCR piece In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Agreeing completely with Colin! pdp On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 1:27?PM Colin Harrison < Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Congratulations, David, George and Vicki! > > > > Well argued, and important. > > > > Best regards > > > > Colin > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and > attachment. > > Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not > necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. 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David Pearson Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley email: ppearson at berkeley.edu other e-mail: pdavidpearsondean at gmail.com website for publications: www.pdavidpearson.org ******************* *Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses* 110 41st Street, Apt 401 Oakland CA 94611-5237 iPhone: 510 543 6508 **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jwcunnin at email.unc.edu Fri Apr 7 22:41:55 2023 From: jwcunnin at email.unc.edu (Cunningham, James William) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 21:41:55 +0000 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] article on legislating phonics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David, Thanks so much for the link. I just finished giving it a quick read. You, George, and Vicki have done our field, teachers, and children a great service. Hopefully, its open access will lead to it being widely read and considered. Why anyone would rely on influencers, politicians, and real scientists pontificating out of field for how something as important as reading should be taught is a mystery to me. Jim Cunningham ________________________________ From: Reading-hall-of-fame on behalf of David P. Reinking Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 12:06 PM To: Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] article on legislating phonics Dear Hall of Fame colleagues, I thought many of you might be interested in the attached article entitled ?Legislating Phonics: Settled Science or Political Polemics? that George Hruby, Vicki Risko and I recently published in Teachers College Record. Thanks to the generous support of the University of Kentucky, which paid SAGE?s fees, the article is open access. It may be freely accessed and disseminated, including at the following website: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01614681231155688 Here is the abstract: In this commentary, we identify a phonics-first ideology and its polemical distortions of research and science to promote legislation that constrains and diminishes the teaching of reading. We affirm our own, and a majority of reading professionals?, commitment to teaching phonics. However, we argue that phonics instruction is more effective when embedded in a more comprehensive program of literacy instruction that accommodates students? individual needs and multiple approaches to teaching phonics?a view supported by substantial research. After summarizing the politicization of phonics in the United States, we critique a legislated training course for teachers in Tennessee as representative of how a phonics-first ideology is expressed polemically for political purposes. We contrast it with a more collaboratively developed, balanced, nonlegislative approach in the previous governor?s administration. Specifically, the training course (a) makes an unfounded claim that there is a national reading crisis that can be traced to insufficient or inappropriate phonics instruction; (b) distorts, misrepresents, or omits relevant research findings and recommendations, most prominently from the report of the National Reading Panel; (c) inaccurately suggests that ?balanced literacy instruction? is ?whole language? instruction in disguise; and (d) wrongly claims that its views of phonics are based on a settled science of reading. David David Reinking Distinguished Professor of Education Emeritus Clemson University, and Adjunct Professor of Education Dept. of Language and Literacy Education Mary Frances Early College of Education University of Georgia David.Reinking @uga.edu http://www.davidreinking.info/ orcid.org/0000-0001-8040-6673 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk Mon Apr 10 16:39:27 2023 From: g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk (Greg Brooks) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:39:27 +0100 Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] TCR piece In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And so do I, and I'm going to add my ha'porth, in the form of my 2022 article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, attached. Please note: 1) The definitions of structured and balanced literacy I cite early on differ markedly from yours. 2) I rebut Bowers' (2020) main argument. 3) I am in the midst of writing a fuller rebuttal of that, and of Wyse & Bradbury (2022). 4) I think my main analysis provides strong support for your position. Thanks again for a meticulous and stylishly expressed piece. On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 at 21:42, P David Pearson wrote: > Agreeing completely with Colin! > pdp > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 1:27?PM Colin Harrison < > Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Congratulations, David, George and Vicki! >> >> >> >> Well argued, and important. >> >> >> >> Best regards >> >> >> >> Colin >> >> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee >> and may contain confidential information. If you have received this >> message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and >> attachment. >> >> Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not >> necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email >> communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored >> where permitted by law. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Reading-hall-of-fame mailing list >> Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk >> https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/reading-hall-of-fame >> > > > -- > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > "Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!" - Walt Disney > > "It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle." - Unknown > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > P. 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