"The Frenetic Fanatic Phonic Backlash"
Journal article
By: Maryann Eeds-Kniep
Date: November/December 1979
Source: Eeds-Kniep, Maryann. "The Frenetic Fanatic Phonic Backlash." Language Arts 56, no. 8, November/December 1979, 909–911.
Introduction
The debate about how to teach reading has been long and hard-fought. On one side are those who believe that teaching phonics should be the basic method for teaching young children to read. On the other side are those who believe in "whole language" teaching, or in using books to teach rather than breaking language into small bits. Maryann Eeds-Kniep finds value in both methods, depending on the situation and the student.
Eeds-Kniep's article addresses the question of how children learn language. Do they learn sounds and then words? Or do they learn whole words and recognize them as distinct units? This has been the focus of the "reading wars," as they are...
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