My understanding is that HM based some if their word work ideas on Cunningham's work-- I am a 4 blocks teacher and a presenter. I am very familiar with Cunningham's work. In HM's pitch to our district about 3+ yrs ago, HM told our school things that Pat had said. Well what they said did not seem kosher to me. I contacted Pat and she said that she did not say what they claimed she had said.---the point being--companies may use some of the ideas of credible people like Cunningham, or Templeton and Baird--but they do take liberties, and will even say things that are not true. I know that HM has taken may liberties with Pat's stuff--like making words etc. Companies will take what they want, and tweak good ideas to sell the programs to the various states and school districts. I do not use HM's phonics--I use phonics based on Pat Cunningham's Working With Words activates--much-much better than HM's altered versions of Cunningham's or any other experts work in the field of phonics.
Marti To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Words Their Way > Are you sure that the Houghton Mifflin has a Words Their Way component? > Maybe our district has an old verison, but I thought ours had word work > based on > Pat Cunninghams making words. Doesn't McGraw Hill have the WTW component? > Can > anyone clear this up for me??? > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
