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[quote=Anonymous]Some people on dcum are super, super into the “reading wars.”

It’s not really a war, it’s just research on reading instruction and curriculum and politics around how schools choose programs.

I think there is a fair argument that promising research on phonics instruction got downplayed because it fell out of fashion in elite academic circles. But that was never true across the country, and it’s not as simplistic as some posters make it sound on here.

Like yes, follow the research and be skeptical of politics. That’s mostly what people have done and that’s why trends have swung back to phonics. But it’s not like there were monsters and angels at work here. Education research is kind of hard and mushy.

Having been in high poverty schools using SFA and other reading curricula, I like SFA but like anything else, it’s all about implementation. And it really can be a bummer for teachers. You can learn to adjust to that and I think it can be really good, but as I said it’s about implementation.

People who are militaristic and full of moral outrage about curricula, like the OP, are almost always from outside of schools in my experience. [/quote]

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