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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 13, 1995                   TAG: 9505170098
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO  
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FIT THE METHOD OF TEACHING READING TO THE INDIVIDUAL CHILD

I'm so tired of hearing folks mindlessly idolize the good old days, like the time when reading was taught through good old-fashioned phonics.

In his rail against fads in teaching reading, Arnold Saari (April 27 commentary article, "Drop the fads and teach the children to read") suggested we use another idea that is presently quite faddish. That idea is that phonics is the only and best way to teach reading. Advertisements and commercials for a particular phonics-teaching package attempt to convince us that phonics can teach all readers, in no time flat.

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