- Paperback: 210 pages
- Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs; First edition (19 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0255364032
- ISBN-13: 978-0255364034
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 986,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Learning to read is the most important task of early childhood. All parents, indeed all of us, should be concerned that the methods used to teach this crucial skill are the best possible. In this book, the author describes the findings of the most up-to-date experimental research on beginning reading instruction. However, an examination of how children are taught to read reveals a large discrepancy between the methods currently used and those which research demonstrates are the most effective. This book provides answers some of the most controversial issues in education today.
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I went to a good skool. It was Approved!
26 Sep 2002
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Bonnie Macmillan has provided an excellent service to parents everywhere by setting out the reasons why schoolchildren cannot read.
Her book goes over in meticulous detail the conflicts between the phonics and other methods which have been used in schools across the world to teach our children to read.
The style she adopts is to breakdown each chapter into research and practice and explores every avenue of educational and psychological aspects of teaching children to read. She draws upon all of the latest in research to sustain her claim that the phonics method is the best and most reliable method of teaching children to read. However, she also shows how the vast majoriyty of teachers, particularly in the state sector of British education, while claiming to use a variety of methods to teach reading, actually are particularly limited to methods which have been found wanting.
The book itself is a little difficult for the general reader but the point she makes is a vital one for the continued health and development of Britain. There are also serious implications for the state of education in Britain. Despite the time of writing being at the juncture of the change from the Conservative to Labour administrations, education is still in the thrall of collectivist ideologues who have convinced themselves of the paucity of learning and the advancement of knowledge in the post-modern capitalist state.
Much work is needed to restore the 'state' of British education to where it once was. This book is a very important contribution to the debate about the quality and quantity of education in Britain and deserves to be taken seriously by all educators.
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2 Oct 2008
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This is a very well researched and clearly written critique of whole-word and whole language methods of teaching reading.
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