Two Paradoxes of Phonics.

Maclean, Rod

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Publication Date: 1988

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Two Paradoxes of Phonics.

Maclean, Rod

Reading Teacher, v41 n6 p514-17 Feb 1988

Claims that even though teaching phonics is an effective method of reading instruction, the skills taught by phonics have little to do with the process of reading acquisition. Offers two methods of resolving the paradoxes generated by this situation. (NH)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Phonics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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