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Can phonics help us spell better?

Jun 12, 2016 | Category: literacy

Children's author and high-profile opponent of phonics instruction, Michael Rosen recently wrote this blog casting doubt on the idea that learning phonics could help people spell. He was writing in re...

#phonics #Michael Rosen #Debbie Hepplewhite

Reading difficulty is a teaching problem not an intelligence problem

Feb 04, 2016 | Category: literacy

Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don’t have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personal...

#glue ear #Keith Stanovich #phonics

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