The Reading Wars
- Kind
- Newspaper Article
- Date
- 1997-11-01
- Publisher
- The Atlantic
- Retrieved
- Mar 2, 2019
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Reading Wars of the 1990s
WHOLE-language theory holds that learning to read and write English is analogous to learning to speak it -- a natural, unconscious process best fostered by unstructured immersion. In an atmosphere rich in simple printed texts and in reading aloud, small children make a wondrous associative leap from knowing the…