[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Yes, that’s what my article is about. I’m in the same camp as Flesch, Blumenfeld, Engelmann, Mona McNee, Marva Collins, etc. The fascinating challenge, however, is to explain why Whole Word causes so many problems.

[srmorton]

I apologize for only reading the exerpt before posting. I just feel so strongly about this subject! I had done so well in public school and college that I trusted the school system to teach my children to read. I was taught to read phonetically and have always loved to read. My husband was taught by the "look and say" method and has always hated to read, even though he is a college graduate.

Since my girls brought home papers with some phonetic exercies on them, it did not occur to me to question how they were being taught until their teacher said that one of my girls was having trouble "decoding" a word. Since I had no idea what that meant, I began to look into it and discovered Flesh's books. It still makes me furious to think how the education establishment keep using a method that they knew was not working, just because PhDs and textbook companies had staked their reputations and careers on it!