Learning to read: why faulty theories should not be allowed to get in the way of primary education
Fortunately for our country, over the past few years our direction has been changing, with a clear policy and curricular effort aimed at teaching the code explicitly, systematically and early—without abandoning the idea that meaning matters. Learning letters as codes for sounds is the means, while understanding meaning is the end. This is neither a compromise between doctrines, nor a new dogma, but what science has discovered and how good teachers have always taught.
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