[EDLING:1574] Go back to basics, and put literacy teaching on the same page (http://theaustralian.com.au report)

[Francis Hult]

Francis Hult (fmhult at dolphin.upenn.edu) has suggested you might be interested in the following http://theaustralian.com.au article: 



Go back to basics, and put literacy teaching on the same page
13 May 2006
THE battle between advocates of "whole language" and phonics, often described as the reading wars, is not restricted to places such as New York City. Throughout the English-speaking world, whether Britain, New Zealand, the US or Australia, the battle between the two approaches to teaching reading has raged, in its modern form, since the mid to late 1970s.
The full story is available at: http://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,19112807%255E28737,00.html