Children Teach Themselves to Read Article

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Children Teach Themselves to Read

Unschoolers' accounts of how their children taught themselves to read.

Published on February 24, 2010

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of any major university library you can find rows and rows of books and many journals devoted solely to the topic of how to teach reading. In education circles heated debates--dubbed "the reading wars"--have raged for decades between those who believe that most emphasis should be placed on teaching phonics and those who take what is called a "whole language" approach to reading instruction. .....Continued at Full Article