Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i1EI0NI26965; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:00:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:00:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3DC318A3.01B5CC88.0AB94E44@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1026] Re: where's the research for phonics only? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1504 Lines: 17 Tom: I am not disputing the facts that you state below, nor your citation. What I am saying is that you don't have one shread of evidence to say that people have literacy problems because they learned with phonics vs sight word reading. According to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) there are approximately 40 million adults who score in the lowest literacy level and another 40 who score in the second lowest. However, their problem is not that they cannot read single words correctly nor spell properly. It is that they cannot read critically. Let me say it again slowly. They cannot read C R I T I C A L L Y. Phonics does not teach people to read critically. It simply teaches people how to recognize sound patterns and spell them correctly. Spelling is N O T the problem. Reading C R I T I C A L L Y is. Phonics does not teach people how to read C R I T I C A L L Y. If you want to understand the theory of how phonics and sight word recogniton works, refer to my previous posting. I tried to simplify it as much as possible for people w/o background in language acquisition and processing. If there is any part of the message that you did not understand, please let me know so that I can clarify it for you. So, you can cite lots of references about illiteracy and everyone here agrees with you. What people dispute is the claim that the porblem is lack of phonics instruction, and the solution is phonics instruction. Andres -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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