[Gorzaloon]

This view of reading implies that there is no single "correct" meaning for a given text, only plausible meanings.

If this had only a little more nitrogen in it, it would be great for spreading on tomatoes.

[Onelifetogive]

The work is infested with idiots who take simple things and try to make them complicated so that they can "feel" smarter than everyone else.

Whole Language over simple effective Phonics; Central Economic Planning over simple self-interest; religions with myriad rules over simple Faith

[Vic3O3]

ping

[Hugin]

This view of reading implies that there is no single "correct" meaning for a given text, only plausible meanings.

It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

[Pylot]

Both of my children were reading by the time they were three years old. This is not due to their extraordinary intelligence, it is due to my wife sitting with them and teaching them, through phonics and the good experience of reading fun stories with mom.

Any American who sees this nonsense on whole reading and does not see a direct threat to their childrens future ability to understand life and thrive in it, probably does not read.

I have long believed that the communists knew that the simple way to take over a country without firing a shot is to simply dumb down the kids. They are doing a great job.

[Consort]

In other words, the context is whatever the reader determines it to be at any given time regardless of what the writer intended. A Tower of Babel Redux.

[Wright is right!]

This article is so dense and babblingly incoherent that it was obviously written while the author was riding on "The Little Bus."

Michael

[Jonathon Spectre]

Whole language = total f**king madness.

I don't want my child looking at PICTOGRAMS. Words are the foundation of language.

[proxy_user]

It is true that hermanetics and the philosophy of language pose many difficult problems. It is also true that only a fool would allow the problems dealt with in graduate seminars to influence what goes on in the first grade.

[Orual]

From an article by Dr. Patrick Groff.

When the above principles and practices of WL reading teaching are examined experimentally, it consistently is found that none of them is corroborated. The response to this situation by present-day major-domos of WL is to denounce as bogus any scientific research finding that disputes the validity of WL doctrines, and the peculiar manner in which its dogmas are implemented.

Despite the empirically discredited nature of WL, conversions of teachers to it over the years have grown rapidly. State departments of education follow suit by mandating that WL reading teaching be conducted in preference to the DISEC variety.

California offers an illustrative example of the dire consequences of WL's popularity. In 1987, this state's Department of Education dictated use of WL reading teaching in its public schools. By 1995, the federally-funded National Assessment of Educational Progress (which includes a standardized, objective reading test) reported that WL reading teaching in California was more fashionable here than in any other state. At the same time, however, California students had devolved into the least competent readers in the nation.

[headsonpikes]

"They know that not making connections is as political as making connections."

Well, they got that right.