Reading Lessons The Debate over Literacy

by Coles, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780809080380
• ISBN10: 0809080389
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Hill and Wang

Summary

How children are taught to read & how they learn are perennially difficult issues in the United States. In this hard-hitting study, the author argues that the very terms of today's arguments about learning are flawed. He urges Americans to worry about the best ways to teaching - not a single "best way" - & about how politics, economics, & power in our unequal society affect our children's ability to read.

Author Biography

Gerald Coles writes often on literacy, learning, and psychology. He is the author of The Learning Mystique and has taught at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Rochester. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
The Debate Over Reading	p. 11
The "Natural" Road to Reading	p. 34
Alphabet Sounds and Learning to Read	p. 54
Emotions and Learning to Read	p. 68
Meaning, Comprehension, and Reading Success	p. 91
Learning Capacity, Children's Futures, and Reading Achievement	p. 107
Reading Disabilities and Learning to Read	p. 120
Money, Politics, and Learning to Read	p. 136
Conclusion: Changing the Literacy Debate	p. 160
Notes	p. 167
Index	p. 205
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