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Reading without Nonsense
Abstract
This text provides a humanistic antidote to the managed systems approach to instruction. Its theme is that must make sense to the learner and so must instruction. Revised and expanded, this edition has been restructured to provide separate (and updated) chapters on: phonics and meaningful reading; comprehension and learning; the act and range of reading; and teaching and reading disabilities. The underlying learner-friendly, teacher-supportive approach that characterized the previous editions remains unchanged. Dr Smith notes that the research and debate of the past ten years, though often acrimonious, have done nothing to undermine this book's account of the basic nature of and of learning to read.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pettegrew, B., & Smith, F.
- Venue
- The English Journal
- Published
- 1981-11
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 88
- ISSN
- 0013-8274 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1591828507
- Cited by
- 392
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 18.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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