In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

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But in recent years, parents and educators who champion the “science of reading” have fiercely criticized Professor Calkins and other supporters of balanced literacy. They cite a half-century of research that shows phonics — sound it out exercises that are purposefully sequenced — is the most effective way to teach reading, along with books that build vocabulary and depth.

With brain science steadily adding to that evidence, there is a sense — at least for many in the education establishment — that the debate over early reading instruction may be ebbing. Phonics is ascendant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html
 
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