Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
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The Battle for Literacy
For the whole language folks, phonics was old fashioned, kind of conservative. People actually called it war, the reading wars. Congress eventually got involved, convening a national reading panel to review all the research on reading. In 2000, the panel released its report that explicitly and systematically teaching children the relationship between sounds and letters improves reading achievement.
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