Why Jacques, Johann and Jan CAN Read
Edition: 1979, Revised 2006 edition
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Inc.
Published: Second edition 2008, First Edition 2006 No Longer Available
Place of publication: College Station, Texas
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781589613270
Subjects: Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts; General; Education; Education / Teaching
Description: This book reports the author's oral reading accuracy research on over 900 second graders in five languages in the United States and Europe in 1977-1978  The data showed that teaching beginning reading by sight-word "meaning" or by phonic "sound" had developed diametrically opposite types of readers, with relative mixtures falling in between.  The data also proved that teaching beginning reading by sight-word "meaning" instead of by phonic "sound" had not only produced inaccurate oral reading but had damaged so-called reading comprehension.  Therefore, so-called reading comprehension, instead of being the supposed Crown Jewel of the sight-word "meaning" method, turned out to be its Achilles Heel.