ALL ABOUT READING
Influential People - Technological
Sir James Pitman
1965
He developed the Initial Teaching Alphabet with 44 lowercase alphabets. It is designed to make it easier for English-speaking children to learn to read English. The idea is that children first learn to read using the i.t.a. then are introduced to standard English orthography at the age of seven.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ita.htm
Jeanne Chall
1967
She wrote Learning to Read: The Great Debate. She identified what she called "the conventional wisdom" of reading instruction: that children should read for meaning from the start, use context and picture clues to identify words after learning about fifty words as sight words, and induce letter–sound correspondences from these words.
Read more: Jeanne Chall (1921–1999) - Reading, Research, Children, and Instruction - StateUniversity.com http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1819/Chall-Jeanne-1921-1999.html#ixzz4Oz0Qak6B
Kenneth Goodman
1986
Some consider him the "founding father" of whole language. Some features of whole language:
- Whole-language learning builds around whole learners learning
whole language in whole situations.
- Whole-language learning assumes respect for language, for the learner, and for the teacher.
- The focus is on meaning and not on language itself, in authentic
speech and literacy events.
- Learners are encouraged to take risks and invited to use language,
in all its varieties, for their own purposes.
- In a whole-language classroom, all the varied functions of oral and
written language are appropriate and encouraged.
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/642/Harris_Evaluating.pdf?sequence=2
Richard Allington and Sean Walmsley
1995
Wrote "No Quick Fix: Rethinking Literacy Programs in American's Elementary Schools;" They focused on struggling readers by introducing the framework and strategies that work. This book was the first of many books they wrote related to struggling readers.
