SRA has ALWAYS been all about phonics. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless
-----Original message----- From: Joan Matuga <joan3te...@hotmail.com> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 23:34:16 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Phonics in the 50s and 60s Yes, I checked at SRA was available in the 50's. The classroom kits with cards started in 1957. I remember using them. I'm showing my age; I was born in 1950. ----- Original Message ----- From: judy fiene<mailto:jfie...@gmail.com> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group<mailto:mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Phonics in the 50s and 60s You might want to check out the IRA resources I listed below. You could find a lot more resources from the IRA History of Reading section on their website: http://www.reading.org/Resources/ResourcesByTopic/HistoryofReading/SelectedTopics.aspx<http://www.reading.org/Resources/ResourcesByTopic/HistoryofReading/SelectedTopics.aspx> Hope this helps. Judy Balmuth, Miriam. (1982). The roots of phonics: A historical introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill. Chall, Jeanne S. (1996). Learning to read: The great debate (3rd ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College. (Original work published 1967) Diack, Hunter. (1965). The teaching of reading in spite of the alphabet. New York: Philosophical Library. Monaghan, E. Jennifer. (1998). Phonics and whole word/whole language controversies, 1948–1998: An introductory history<http://www.americanreadingforum.org/98_yearbook/pdf/01_monaghan_98.pdf<http://www.americanreadingforum.org/98_yearbook/pdf/01_monaghan_98.pdf>>. In Richard J. Telfer, Finding our literacy roots: Eighteenth yearbook of the American Reading Forum (pp. 1–23). Whitewater, WI: American Reading Forum. Pearson, P. David. (2004). The reading wars: The politics of reading research and policy–1988 through 2003. Educational Policy, 18(1), 216–252. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:50 PM, beverleep...@gmail.com<mailto:beverleep...@gmail.com> < beverleep...@gmail.com<mailto:beverleep...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Well, I'd agree that the book was written in that era. However, I don't > think he ever published any research at all, or did any. And he didn't have > any personal experience or education in how to teach reading. He actually > studied law and ended up as an English teacher. His opinion was his opinion, > which we're all entitled to, but his wasn't based on experience, education, > or research. > > Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless > > -----Original message----- > From: Kris Morris <kmor...@mail.wccards.k12.mo.**us<kmor...@mail.wccards.k12.mo.us<mailto:kmor...@mail.wccards.k12.mo.**us%3ckmor...@mail.wccards.k12.mo.us>> > > > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" < > mosaic@literacyworkshop.org<mailto:mosaic@literacyworkshop.org>> > Sent: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 20:16:28 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Phonics in the 50s and 60s > > You might check out the book Why Johnny Can't Read. He has lots of great > research and wisdom on teaching students how to read and spell. It was > written at about that time. You might find the information you need. > Kris > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Renee wrote: > > I learned to read in Kindergarten in 1955, using Dick and Jane.... no >> > phonics. Amazingly, I can still read today. Imagine that. > >> >> Renee >> >> On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Heather L wrote: >> >> Hello all! Ive been doing some research on reading in the 1950s - 60s and >>> >>> >> I > >> cant find the names of any of the new phonics programs from those >>> >> decades. > >> Does anyone know of any from that period? 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