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Title: Reading Process and Practice: From Socio-Psycholinguistics to Whole Language by Constance Weaver ISBN: 0-435-08799-1 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $39.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Failure as an academic study
Comment: Constance Weaver's presentation is a one-sided agenda tosupport whole language. The foolishness of the material on phonicsshould appear only on an editorial page. I have been in educationsince 1963 and have found that Whole Language limits students, holdingthem back. In my college reading class which I teach, I pointed outConstance Weaver's approach and opinion of phonics as well as wholelanguage. I have had to teach my own college students how to improvetheir own reading using phonics because they have been"victims" of whole language instruction. Theirreading/analytical ability has increased considerably. When I taughtin the elementary school, my students increased their readingcomprehension an average of 51% over a year. In a 25-hour summerschool program, our 6th/7th grade inner city students improvedcomprehension and language arts standardized pre-post tests 20%average. (We did not teach comprehension or language, onlyphonics/word attack skills.)
I teach phonics/word attack skills aswell as traditional college reading courses. And one key rule: Don'tbelieve everything you read in a book without doing other reading andstudy. I would caution you that the Constance Weaver's book is worthyof serious questioning. Just think: Have you ever heard of a popular,effective reading program called HOOKED ON WHOLE LANGUAGE or THE WHOLELANGUAGE GAME? Patricia Doran, M.Ed. ... Anyhone who reads this bookshould question all of the "research" she quotes. END
Rating: 5
Summary: According to this book, phonics is a right wing plot
Comment: According to this textbook, teaching intensive phonics is a Far Right plot to keep children "from reading or thinking for themselves." It appears not to have occurred to the textbook author that, if children are such good readers that they can read all those big words in the Bible, they will have the ability to read the classics of Western civilization, too.
Undeterred by common sense, the textbook plows ahead with its fantasy about a Far Right plot. The book alleges that another, even more devious, motive of Far Right phonics advocates is to promote "docility and obedience on the part of the lower classes," and thereby "maintain the socioeconomic status quo" and preserve "socioeconomic stratification."
The fact is that nothing, nothing at all, has done more to prevent the "lower classes" from rising above their "socioeconomic stratification" than the failure to teach them how to read. (Phyllis Schlafly)
Rating: 4
Summary: Basics of Reading Explained!
Comment: Weaver uses sound logical arguements to build her case for the socio-psycolingustic theory of reading. She talks about many other theories too, and their origins. Her thoughts are not only explained, but backed by research. She offers examples and activites for teachers. She has changed how I think about reading and how I should teach reading! She is a bit repeatitive, so don't let the huge size of the book scare you. Well worth looking at!
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Title: What's Whole in Whole Language by Kenneth S. Goodman ISBN: 043508254X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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