Actually the term whole language wasn't even coined until the early to
mid-eighties. What you may be referring to is the whole WORD approach which
was developed and widely used in the 50s and very early 60s by basal
programs such as Scott Foresman. However, as early as the very early 60s,
basal programs such as Houghton Mifflin integrated phonics into every
lesson. No, it wasn't a phonics only program, but phonics was a vital part
of every lesson, starting from day one of kindergarten. SRA's programs at
that time approached early reading instruction as a mostly decoding,
phonetic program; you may remember their programmed readers which were to be
done independently in the mid- 60s. They, of course, bear a striking
resemblance to today's Reading Mastery, which is very, very similar and was
developed by Zig Englemann in the late 60s tho be used as a program mostly
for SPED students, ones we would now say had a reading disability.
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Hi!
I grew up during that period and I agree there were no phonics programs in
use then. OtIt was all whole language back then. I didn't learn about
phonics until I was studying education in college - about 20 years ago.
Things have sure changed.
Carol T.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Karen Burnside
<kburns...@mckinneyisd.net>wrote:
I have wondered the same thing myself. I began first grade in 1961. I
think that we learned our phonetic background from the use of those skinny
square spelling books.. I will never forget them, there was a different
color for each grade level. I have since found them at yard sales and you
will find the phonetic rules in the spellers.
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Phonics in the 50s and 60s
Heather,
I'm a product of those years and probably the reason you can't find any
phonics programs is most likely because we used sight reading to learn how
to read with Dick and Jane!
Ann
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> 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? Thanks, Heather L
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