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Phonics is not a cure for cancer

Dec 30, 2015 | Category: reading
Do antibiotics work? Well, that rather depends on what you've got. If you've got a viral infection like influenza antibiotics will be useless. To fight viral infections you need to use antiviral drugs...
#phonics #Stephen D Krashen

Only phonics? A reader replies to Michael Rosen Part 2

Dec 29, 2015 | Category: reading
Following yesterday's post from Jacqui Moller-Butcher in which she responds to Michael Rosen's anti-phonics arguments, one of the complaints that has repeatedly emerged is the idea that phonics is not...
#phonics #Michael Rosen

From Scared Straight to Reading Wrong

Oct 24, 2015 | Category: reading
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the b...
#Daniel Willingham #Matthew Syed #decoding #James Finckenauer #phonics

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