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Direct linkWaters, Lindsay – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Over the last 50 years, certain ideas have become dominant that make learning to read different than it once was than the ideas that children are neurologically "wired" to use language "competently" in certain ways. Noam Chomsky has promoted the idea that there are certain "syntactic structures" hard-wired in the human brain. That view, the author…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Speed Reading
Innes, Richard G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Criticism of Stephen Karshen's June 2002 "Kappan" article "Whole Language and the Great Plummet of 1987-92: An Urban Legend from California." Argues that Karshen's analysis of the California Achievement Program reading scores is wrong. (PKP)
Descriptors: Criticism, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Scores
Manning, Maryann; Manning, Gary – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Addresses criticism leveled at classrooms that do not use basals or English textbooks by providing justification for use of children's literature and newspapers as sound instructional materials in a comprehensive reading program. (HTH)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Criticism, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
