What Do the Experts Say?: Helping Children Learn to Read

by Rona F. Flippo

As the reading wars rage on, Rona Flippo brings us hopeful news from the front: -Even though there are numerous differences in perspectives among reading experts, some of whom have been pitted against... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325000441
• ISBN13: 9780325000442
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Important, dynamic, invaluable, benchmark contribution.

What Do The Experts Say?: Helping Children Learn To Read is a thorough and well-balanced presentation of the basic arguments arising from the phonics versus whole language debates regarding how children can best learn to read. In exploring this fundamental educational issue, Rona Flippo insightfully underscores the critical need for some agreement in the educational community. She presents the "Expert Study", with essential information about the various participants and study methods. The areas of agreement are then analyzed and interpreted. Flippo then moves beyond the theoretical into the real world, with practicing teachers sharing their own views and classroom experiences. What Do The Experts Say? concludes with a synthesis of the findings and invites the reader to participate in a follow-up study designed to give classroom teachers and other educational professionals an equal voice. Ultimately, only when practitioners join the conversation about how best to support developing young readers will they be empowered to make the decisions that are shaping literacy education today. What Do The Experts Say? is an important, dynamic, invaluable, benchmark contribution to the on-going national discussion regarding literacy and the teaching of reading skills in the classroom setting.

An important, dynamic, invaluable, benchmark publication.

What Do The Experts Say? is a thorough and well-balanced presentation of the basic arguments arising from the phonics versus whole language debates regarding how children can best learn to read. In exploring this fundamental educational issue, Rona Flippo insightfully underscores the critical need for some agreement in the educational community. She presents the "Expert Study", with essential information about the various participants and study methods. The areas of agreement are then analyzed and interpreted. Flippo then moves beyond the theoretical into the real world, with practicing teachers sharing their own views and classroom experiences. What Do The Experts Say? concludes with a synthesis of the findings and invites the reader to participate in a follow-up study designed to give classroom teachers and other educational professionals an equal voice. Ultimately, only when practitioners join the conversation about how best to support developing young readers will they be empowered to make the decisions that are shaping literacy education today. What Do The Experts Say? is an important, dynamic, invaluable, benchmark contribution to the on-going national discussion regarding literacy and the teaching of reading skills in the classroom setting.