Reading Without Nonsense

Fourth Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8077-4686-8
Verlag: Teachers College Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 258 g

Reading Without Nonsense remains a groundbreaking, humanistic antidote to the managed ""systems"" approach to reading instruction. In his extensively revised fourth edition, Frank Smith brings teachers and teacher educators up to date on how reading should not be taught. It is a necessary reminder that reading and learning to read are natural activities. There is a massive assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. Now more important than ever, ""Reading Without Nonsense, Fourth Edition"" provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view. As Frank Smith emphasizes, the act of reading has never changed despite all the changes in materials, procedures, and methodology proposed by people with an interest in how reading is taught. ""Reading Without Nonsense"" remains one of the most authoritative, influential, informative, and accessible texts on reading and learning to read. This bestseller is popular with classroom teachers and university professors as well as administrators, parents, and everyone concerned with literacy and education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Most Natural Act in the World; 2. Learning to Be a Reader; 3. The Limitations of Phonics; 4. Reading - From Behind the Eyes; 5. Bottlenecks of Memory; 6. Language and Meaning; 7. Constructing a Theory of the World; 8. Letters, Words, and Meanings; 9. Joining the Club of Readers; 10. The Importance of Teachers; 11. Labels and Fables.

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Smith has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa