A half-century ago, Jeanne Chall, in her seminal work “Learning to Read: The Great Debate,” concluded that Synthetic Phonics, not Whole Word methods (like today’s Balanced Literacy), was the way to teach reading. How can we still be arguing about this?
"As a teacher, I felt that if I didn't make an effort to pronounce their name correctly, it showed I didn't care about who they were."
For #ELLs, a mispronounced name is often the first of many slights they experience in classrooms: https://t.co/RKuffGokvW