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Phonetics Seen Key To Reading
NEW YORK UPI reports a debate on teaching phonics vs look and guess reading. Watson Washburn argues early alphabet instruction and phonics curb illiteracy and school dropouts, criticizing the whole word method as harmful. He cites draft rejection rates and crime linked to illiteracy, and urges renewed phonics in schools nationwide.
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