Rudolph Flesch - ANSWERSstarted debate & brought to publics attention how best to teach reading; plain English proponent; praised phonics; book "Why Johnny Can't Read" (1955)
NICHD - ANSWERSLooking at the issue deemed the inability to read as "national health issue" and began to fund research in...
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Rudolph Flesch - ANSWERSstarted debate & brought to publics attention how best to
teach reading; plain English proponent; praised phonics; book "Why Johnny Can't
Read" (1955)
NICHD - ANSWERSLooking at the issue deemed the inability to read as "national
health issue" and began to fund research in the area of reading; 1997 asked to create
Reading Panel
"Learning to Read: The Great Debate" Jeanne Chall - ANSWERSThis book caught the
attention of professionals and the government that our nation is in a reading crisis.
Children are not learning to read since the look and say method came about. (1967)
Basal Reading Programs - ANSWERSThese programs begin to drive reading
instruction. 70% of American Schools bought one or more of the best selling programs.
(1960s to mid 80s); focus on basic linguistic concepts, reading skills, vocab; 1st were
McGuffey Readers (1830s)
Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith - ANSWERSDeveloped the Top-Down approach to
reading instruction. Believed that reading should be taught through immersion in
children's literature . Teaches reading without breaking it down into parts. Whole
Language based, emphasis is on guessing at words rather than sounding them out
(1967 journal article, G said reading is a "psycholinguistic guessing game."
G. Reid Lyon - ANSWERSNICHD former coordinator of reading research; former Chief
of Child Development and Behavior Branch (1991)
Research by NICHD indicates that of the students with specific learning disabilities
receiving special education services - ANSWERS70 - 80% have deficit in reading
According to the National Reading Panel Report (2000), what represents the strongest
indication of a reading disability - ANSWERSa deficit in phonology
D. Berlin (1887) - ANSWERSCoined the term "dys" -- meaning difficult, "lexia" --
meaning pertaining to words.
James Hinshelwood (1917) - ANSWERS"word blindness" -- ophthalmologist from
Scotland that discovered that the left hemisphere of the brain affected word storage
Samuel Orton (1920-1950) - ANSWERSNeuropsychiatrist from Columbia University in
New York who first recognized dyslexia students in America. He discovered that
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