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Whole language? Phonics? Or is there a better way to teach your children how to read?
Why Our Children Can't Read: And What We Can Do About It
by Diane McGuiness Ph.D
“[A] hard-hitting analysis of our nation’s literacy problems and a devastating critique of some very popular but ineffective programs.” – Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education
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Diane McGuinness now has hard data to prove what the few sane educators have claimed all along: whole language instruction is a fraud. But the data also speaks worlds about phonics. Not that phonics is in error. The problem is that many phonics programs go about it "backwards" and ignore some important elements in reading. So, no matter how you were taught, you probably learned to read the wrong way. Even so, you read well, and so do your children. But most of us don't read as well as we could. And Dr. McGuinness knows why.
A professor at the University of South Florida, McGuinness draws on 25 years of solid reading research to show exactly what works - and what doesn't. The results are groundbreaking, even for veteran phonics advocates. Why Our Children Can't Read is nothing short of a blueprint for a reading revolution. But Professor McGuinness doesn't stop there. She shows you, step-by-step, how to teach reading properly and how to transform troubled readers. A fraction of the practical advice and sound solutions in these 400 well-documented pages:
- Reading: How do we do it? A history of written language from Babylonian pictographs to modern English
- The critical element most reading methods ignore - with disastrous results
- Dyslexia, ADD, and other "learning disabilities": fancy labels that mean your child isn't being taught to read
- Modern phonics: pale imitations of Webster's original program
- The all-important code that provides the key to how English spelling works. Could it help you? Your children?
- Methods used in many phonics programs, now shown to be useless
- The 7 major components of good beginning reading instruction
- How to pick out the bad programs and eliminate common time-wasters in reading instruction
Expert testimony
"The real news this book brings us is that no child has to fail at learning to read, that there are ways to help those who have trouble without consigning them to the dust heap of special-ed classes."
-Rita Kramer, author, Ed School Follies
"[A] hard-hitting analysis of our nation's literacy problems and a devastating critique of some very popular but ineffective programs."
-Diane Ravitch, former assistant education secretary
"[T]he book to read for parents and teachers who wish everyone ... to be able to read."
-Prof. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy
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