Have you heard of the “Reading Wars?” When advocating for struggling readers, it’s important to understand the history of teacher training & reading instruction.
EXCERPT: If we peel back the skin of the reading onion, we can understand why. For fifty plus years the education profession has been embroiled in a fundamental debate regarding the teaching of reading. We call this debate the “Reading Wars.” It pitted the teaching of reading using whole language versus the teaching of reading through systematic and explicit phonics instruction, which decades of reading research supports (e.g., Adams, 1990; Berninger & Amtmann, 2003; Liberman, 1973; Moats, 2006; National Reading Panel, 2006).