Word: landmarks
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...similar battles have been fought between those who emphasize the way letters and sounds correspond and those who emphasize whole words and stories. Why Johnny Can't Read, published in 1955, was a hysterical attempt by a phonics advocate to overthrow the then prevalent "look-say" method. In her landmark book, Learning to Read, published in 1967, Jeanne Chall examined the disparate studies undertaken over the decades. She found that beginning readers who were systematically taught phonics performed better than those who were not. She made it clear, though, that phonics instruction should not consist of mindless drills, should...
...counterrevolution began in 1990 with the publication of another landmark book, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, by Marilyn Adams, a cognitive psychologist. Adams' purpose, similar to Chall's, was to synthesize innumerable, uncoordinated studies of reading. She came to exactly the same conclusion that Chall did: reading programs that included systematic phonics instruction led to better readers than programs that did not. Programs that combined systematic phonics instruction with a meaning emphasis seemed to work best...
DIED. NANCY DICKERSON WHITEHEAD, 70, pioneering television reporter; of complications following a stroke; in New York City. Dickerson was the first woman news correspondent at cbs, and her landmark specials ranged from J.F.K. to the Middle East to Watergate...
...thought to be the best-known Boston landmark for Harvard students...
...Strawberries denotes not a point on a line, but an area of a my sphere. And when you run with me, it is your sphere too. Like that wonderful old tree on the Memorial Drive side of the Weeks Footbridge, it is a permanent landmark, saying, 'Yes. I am with...