From Dick and Jane to Now

1950s

• Fries – Linguistic Readers

• Pittman – i.t.a.

• Schall

• Doman – How to Teach Your Baby to Read

The 1960s

• Sylvia Ashton Warner (LEA)

• Basal Readers

• Individualized Reading

• The SRA Kit

• Kenneth Goodman – Psycholinguistic Reading Model

• Systematic Phonics Instruction

Reading Models

• Bottom-up

• Top-down

• Interactive

• Other

The 1970s

• Charles Read

• Emergent Literacy

• Whole Language

• Integration of Reading/Writing

• Systematic Phonics Instruction – Reading Programs

The 1980s

• British Columbia – Ginn 720

• Literature-based reading instruction

• DISTAR

• Back to Basics

• Back to Phonics

The 1990s

• Whole-language instruction

• Back-to-Basics

• Phonemic Awareness

• Alphabetic Principles

• Scripted Reading Instruction

• Pressley – Balanced Reading Instruction

The 00s

• No Child Left Behind

• Systematic Phonics Instruction )Again)

• National Reading Panel

• National Literacy Panel

• Common Core State Standards

British Columbia - 2009

• What’s happening out there?

Sylvia Ashton Warner

• “Teacher”

• Language Experience Approach

• Key Words

1960s – Basal Readers

• Publishers

• Scope and Sequence

• Vocabulary Control

• Civil Rights – Diversity

• Ginn 720

1960 – 1970s

• Individualized Reading Programs

• SRA Kits – levels by color

Kenneth Goodman

• Psycholinguistic view of reading

• Miscues

• Reading Program?

Charles Read

• Spelling – his son

• Reading-Writing – Integrated

• Exploration of Language

• Environmental Print

• Intact Language – Natural Language

• Modeling

• Whole Language

Literature-Based Programs

• Children’s Choice

Literature-Based - Publishers

• Scholastic Kits

Balanced Approach

• Michael Pressley

• Whole language – grades 1 – 3

• Systematic phonics instruction – after grade 4

The Reading Wars

• Mid-1980s to late 1990s

• Systematic Phonics vs. sight-words

• Phonemic Awareness

• US Federal Government

• The National Reading Panel

No Child Left Behind

• National Literacy Panel

Common State Core Standards

North America

• Changing Demographics

• English as a Second Language (ESL)

• English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

• English Language Learners (ELL)

• TEAL

• TESOL

What is Your View?