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Dr Patriann Smith: Let's use literacy to open minds

Sunday 7 February 2021
Dr Patriann Smith, assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida in Tampa. PHOTOS COURTESY PATRIANN SMITH -
While certain parts of the education system in the Caribbean seem more advanced than that of the US, the way it tends to approach literacy is often years behind other countries, says Dr Patriann Smith, assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida.
“It seemed that I had undertaken so much more work in my teacher-training diploma in TT than in my master s degree in the US. So, there is a difference in terms of the level of work that is being done across these contexts. ....

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Is there really a 'science of reading' that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?

Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?
Valerie Strauss
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One of the longest-running education debates commonly referred to as a war has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often called “the father of public education” in the United States, argued against teaching the explicit sounds of each letter. He worried that students would concentrate on sounding out words rather than learning how to read for comprehension, so he argued that students should learn to read whole words instead.
Thus began the fight over teaching phonics or “whole language” and more recently what is known as “balanced literacy.” We’ve also been hearing declarations that a “science of reading” proves that employing phonics in a particular war is the best and right path to teach young children how to read. ....

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