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Reading Controversy Phonics Or Look Say in Two Cities
In Champaign and Urbana Illinois, 6 year old Geoffrey learns to read via phonetic decoding while Marian in Urbana uses look-say whole word recognition. The two systems reflect a long standing education debate with Champaign promoting Phonetic Keys To Reading and Urbana adopting a traditional look-say program. Each district assigns first graders to three ability groups after a read readiness phase and both teach phonics though emphasis differs.
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Marian
S and
Urbana
Wright Street
Champaign
Sents
University of Illinois College of Education
Arthur S. Trace Jr
John Carroll University
United States
Russia
Ivan
Johnny
New York
James B. Conlant
Council For Basic Education
Council
Paul Woodring