Re: family literacy

[Joni J Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Barbara Braxton wrote:


> Dear Nicole
> Research is like the Bible and statistics - you can use it to support
> whatever argument you are proposing or point of view you wish to defend. And

>
> Apart from the fact that Wood's 'research' is 10 years old, it is full of
> statements that have no support within the conclusion  "That switch from
> sounding words by syllable to sighting them by configuration is the reason
> that since 1950 about 50 million children with poor sight memories have
> reached the fourth grade still unable to read.  And it is the reason that
> two-thirds of these 50 million have never learned to read." illustrates what
> I mean.  Where has Wood got these figures from?
>
> And who is Regna Lee Wood and what is it that he/ she has done that makes
> him/her an expert on which you would base a paper?


There's something wrong with a source that confuses the look-say (Dick
and Jane) method from mid-century with whole language.


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