Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading

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Diane McGuinness

Early Reading Instruction

What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading

Diane McGuinness

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Bradford Books
20 January 2006

Literacy; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes; Educational: English language: reading & writing skills

Series: Early Reading Instruction

Early Reading Instruction is a comprehensive analysis of the research evidence from early writing systems to computer models of reading. In this book, Diane McGuinness provides an innovative solution to the ""reading war""-the century-old debate over the efficacy of phonics (sound-based) versus whole-word (meaning- based) methods. She has developed a prototype-a set of elements that are critical to the success of a reading method.

McGuinness shows that all writing systems, without exception, are based on a sound unit in the language. This fact, and other findings by paleographers, provides a platform for the prototype. Other elements of the prototype are based on modern research. For example, observational studies in the classroom show that time spent on three activities strongly predicts reading success- learning phoneme/symbol correspondences, practice at blending and segmenting phonemes in words, and copying/writing words, phrases, and sentences. Most so-called literacy activities have no effect, and some, like sight word memorization, have a strongly negative effect.

The National Reading Panel (2000) summarized the research on reading methods after screening out thousands of studies that failed to meet minimum scientific standards. In an in-depth analysis of this evidence, McGuinness shows that the most successful methods (children reading a year or more above age norms) include all the elements in the prototype. Finally, she argues, because phonics-type methods are consistently shown to be superior to whole-word methods in studies dating back to the 1960s, it makes no sense to continue this line of research. The most urgent question for future research is how to get the most effective phonics programs into the classroom.

By: Diane McGuinness
Imprint: Bradford Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9780262633352
ISBN 10: 0262633353
Series: Early Reading Instruction
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 20 January 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane McGuinness is a reading consultant and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It, Early Reading Instruction (MIT Press, 2004), and other books on reading and learning.

Reviews for Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading

The taks of reviewing reading instruction research is daunting and McGuinness's efforts are admirable.... Her comprehensive analysis has left few if any stones unturned. - Gale A. Mentzer, Education Review