Learning to Read: The Great Debate
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By: Jeanne S. Chall
Date: 1967
Source: Chall, Jeanne S. Learning to Read: The Great Debate. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967, 187–190.
About the Author: Jeanne S. Chall (1921–1999) was born in Poland and became a naturalized United States citizen. Chall earned degrees from City College in New York (B.B.A.,1941) and Ohio State University (M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1952). A psychologist, she dedicated her life to teaching, especially to teaching reading and discovering how to improve methods of reading instruction. Chall taught at various institutions and finished her career at Harvard University, where the reading lab is named in her honor.
Introduction
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, debates raged about the best way to teach children to read. Rudolf Flesch's best-selling Why Johnny Can't Read, published in 1955, criticized the "sight-word" method...
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