At a Loss for Words: What's Wrong with How Schools Teach Reading
Sold a Story
00:00
The Effects of Whole Word Method on Reading
In the real experiment, college students were trained and tested four times over four days. The students who were taught whole word did better than the phonics students at first. They were able to memorize some of the words and do better on the tests. By day four, the students who learned in the phonics condition were doing better. Not only were they better at reading the words they'd been taught, they were better at reading words they'd never seen before.
Transcript
Play full episode
