Caption: "Kids learn to read the old-fashioned way at Hobart Elementary School in 1999."
Improbable. Elementary schools had abandoned phonics instruction, in most cases, long before 1999. I remember my high school teachers saying there was a huge decline in student literacy between the graduating class of 1984 and the class of 1988, bec…
Caption: "Kids learn to read the old-fashioned way at Hobart Elementary School in 1999."
Improbable. Elementary schools had abandoned phonics instruction, in most cases, long before 1999. I remember my high school teachers saying there was a huge decline in student literacy between the graduating class of 1984 and the class of 1988, because the early 1970s was when phonics was replaced by ineffective reading instruction.
Caption: "Kids learn to read the old-fashioned way at Hobart Elementary School in 1999."
Improbable. Elementary schools had abandoned phonics instruction, in most cases, long before 1999. I remember my high school teachers saying there was a huge decline in student literacy between the graduating class of 1984 and the class of 1988, because the early 1970s was when phonics was replaced by ineffective reading instruction.
Jettisoning phonics because reasons was indeed one of the most boneheaded ideas in the entire history of education.
Yes, phonics was replaced by whole language in the late 1960s. At least in Ontario, Canada.
I was just over the border in the upper Midwest in the early 1970s and we had phonics education.
I was in southern California in the early 70s. It took a few years for the "whole language" ideology to spread through the United States.
I guess I was fortunate enough to start school in Ontario in the early 1960s .