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Betts, Emmett Albert – 1976
Controversies over the best way to teach word recognition in beginning reading instruction have raged for generations. The goal has been to acquire automatic skills for recoding written language into speech. At this time, a popular theory suggests that phonics is better than the look-and-say method; however the evidence does not support this…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Kinesthetic Methods, Linguistics
