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Reading, how to: a people's guide to alternative methods of learning and testing

By: Publication details: Open University Press 1987 Milton KeynesDescription: xvi, 160 pISBN:
  • 0867094338
  • 0335152422
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.4 K6R3
Summary: Reading, How To is Herbert Kohl's answer to the phonics versus whole language debate and to other false dichotomies and unhelpful mandates that characterize much of our talk about reading instruction. Kohl boldly insists that "there is no reading problem.
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Table of content:

1. Who is qualified to teach?
2. Knowledge as an expensive commodity
3. Understanding something about reading (and a description of an alternative to standardized testing)
4. Believing that reading is important
5. Reading materials
6. The contexts of learning
7. Respecting the language and culture of the learner
8. Patience and practice and a style of one's own
9. Being able to use language and some of one's sense
10. The so-called problem of motivation.

Reading, How To is Herbert Kohl's answer to the phonics versus whole language debate and to other false dichotomies and unhelpful mandates that characterize much of our talk about reading instruction. Kohl boldly insists that "there is no reading problem.

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