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Blue Back Speller
Spellers were text books that taught students how to read, spell and pronounce words.The first lesson: two-letter combinations the second and third lessons: three-letter words, four-letter words
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McGuffy Readers
Series of graded primers, including grade levels 1-6, widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and they are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. -
Horace Mann
Common compulsory schooling for all class levels. -
See Say Reading
Known as the whole word method. Teaches studnets to read words as whole units. Allows studnet to be able to sight read words.
Use photos to identify words rather phonics. There is controversy about this method versus traditional phonics and how it interacts with the reading ability. -
Dick & Jane
Basal readers that use whole word/ sight word approach. Social cultural constructions were visually embedded within these short readers. -
An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction
Nila Barton Writes An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction for her doctoral dissertation -
Why Johnny Can't Read
Wrote by Rudolf Flesch. Intorduced phonics to enable studnets to sound out unfamilar words. -
Sputnik
Why do you think this created turmoil in the U.S?
This caused termoil because not being first to the moon created a feeling that we had to improve our education standards to compete with other countries. -
Cat in the Hat
How did the this book fit into the mix? -
First Grade Studies
One of the earliest comprehensive studies in the history of how young children begin to
learn how to read. (27 different individual projects coordinated by7 27 different directors
in which a cadre of researchers compared first-grade reading programs from 1964 to
1967.
* Majority of communities and schools targeted in this project were more or less
homogeneous. Integrated approaches (connecting reading and meaning, Systematic phonics significantly surpassed the basal-alone approaches. -
First Grade Studies
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Whole word Movement
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More Phonics Emphasis
A prominent figure in shaping Early Childhood literacy instruction, and a proponent of phonics-based reading instruction. She published Language and Literacy Learning in the Early Years: An integrated approach (Harcourt, Bace, 1993). In addition to numerous professional articles and books, she wrote, Children Achieving: Best Practices in Early Literacy (1998, International Reading Association) -
Marilyn Adams
The pendulum is starting to sway back to the phonics approach. Thinking About Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, a book published by phonics expert Dr. Marilyn J. Adams. Adams writes not strictly about teaching phonics, but that phonics can work well with the whole language approach to teaching reading. -
National Reading Panel
Formed in 1997 at the request of Congress, it was a national panel with the stated aim of assessing the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read.
