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“Why Johnny Can't Read”

“Why Johnny Can't Read”

To understand the impact and importance of Why Johnny Can't Read, one must outlook it inside the context of reading education history. The publication and other educational events had a certain synchronicity. From the late 1920s until the early 1950s, the teaching of reading had stayed somewhat unchanged. Whole phrase methods, scrounged from German educators in the 1840s, were used as part of reading education for decades. In the 1920s and 1930s progressive educators embraced a entire phrase approach in reading, starting reading with entire words and then going to phonics. As progressive educators ...