Phonics Claim To Be Pushed By Feds

[Alice Faber]

Beverly Flanigan said:
>"Interesting and comprehensible reading materials"--and their
>accessibility--is the key.  And I don't think it's just "poor" children who
>lack such materials, or the encouragement and motivation to access
>them.  See Labov's homepage, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/home.html,
>under the Urban Minorities Reading Project, for a lively and fun phonics
>program developed with teachers for "disadvantaged" kids.  I believe the
>entire story series is there, with exercises; and all are free for
>downloading and using (Alice, are yours? I can't find samples.)  He also
>has preliminary test results at the site.  I've shown this site to teachers
>of both NS English and ESL, and they think it would help all kids learn to
>read.
>

Alas, no, the ERS materials aren't even semi-published yet. (I just
checked with the program people.) They have a huge amount of stuff,
much of which is still evolving, and the sheer volume of material
makes it difficult to work with. A lot of what they're doing is also
workshops for teachers, so a lot of the materials are illustrative of
how one might go about teaching a certain concept.

However, now that I'm at work, with a high speed connection, I found
the ERS research link; this is an extensive annotated bibliography
prepared by Susan Brady of URI and Haskins:
<http://www.greenwoodinstitute.org/roadmap/rdmindex.html>

Alice

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