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Whole Language or Phonics? Teachers and Researchers Find the Middle Ground Most Fertile. The Great Reading Debate.
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Matson, Barbara – Harvard Education Letter, 1996
The argument between advocates of the whole language approach and the phonics approach threatens to become so polarized and politicized that agreeing on a middle ground seems at times impossible, and the voices of reason and experience are drowned out. The debate erupted anew in California after alarming news stories about reading scores ranked…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics