Multisensory Reading Clinic

"Teaching reading is complex and challenging," and "without a doubt, teaching reading and language is a job for a quick-minded, informed, committed, flexible, and knowledgeable professional."- Moats. L. C. 2001

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Whole Language Approach vs. Code/phonics Approach

to Literacy Instruction

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Whole language approach

• is being taught in our schools today

• is the primary cause of the reading crisis in Canada, the United States, and around the world 

• is teaching reading without breaking the English language down into its parts

• presumes that children will learn to read naturally through exposure to literature

• has minimal, incidental, or no instruction at all to learn how to read and spell

• instructs children to look at the pictures of a children's book to guess unknown words

• guessing words is the emphasis of the instruction

• to be continued...

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