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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821739903321

Autore

Meyer Richard J. <1949->

Titolo

Phonics exposed : understanding and resisting systematic direct intense phonics instruction / / Richard J. Meyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

ISBN

1-135-64591-4

1-4106-0428-4

9786612325175

1-282-32517-5

0-585-38794-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

372.46/5

Soggetti

Reading - Phonetic method - United States

English language - Phonetics - Programmed instruction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-167) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Why Another Book on Phonics?; 2 Phonics Lessons; 3 What Is Reading?; 4 Phonics Programs, Teacher Knowledge, and Teacher Identity; 5 A Closer Look at the Children; 6 Phonics Programs and Curriculum; 7 Phonics, Reading, and Culture; 8 Phonics, Reading, and Politics; 9 Teachers, Activism, and Hope; Appendix: Maybe Rules Are Not the Way to Teach Phonics; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time?  This book addresses the question through an in-depth play-by-play description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a real classroom, followed by chapters that look at it from different angles by ""zooming in"" on one facet to analyze it closely: *Reading. What is reading? What definition of reading is presented (implicitly) in the phonics  lesson? What do competing definitions from the reading resea