{"id":1718,"date":"2018-02-23T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2018-02-23T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:40:00","slug":"krashen-responds-to-the-international-literacy-associations-explaining-phonics-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/krashen-responds-to-the-international-literacy-associations-explaining-phonics-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Krashen Responds to the International Literacy Association&#8217;s &#8220;Explaining Phonics Instruction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Literacy Association recently published a report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.literacyworldwide.org\/docs\/default-source\/where-we-stand\/ila-explaining-phonics-instruction-an-educators-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Explaining phonics instruction: An educator\u2019s guide<\/b><\/a>. It is incomplete and misleading, but that comes as no surprise to anyone who subscribes to an ILA journal.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Krashen has responded with an alternative report called <a href=\"http:\/\/skrashen.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/phonics-and-reading-some-basics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phonics and reading: Some basics<\/strong><\/a>. As usual, he cuts through the fog and provides a clear view of the role of phonics in learning to read.<\/p>\n<p>Also: the ILA report runs some 2500+ words with references; Krashen&#8217;s report is 408 words. Shorter is (much) wiser in this case.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Literacy Association recently published a report,\u00a0Explaining phonics instruction: An educator\u2019s guide. It is incomplete and misleading, but that comes as no surprise to anyone who subscribes to an ILA journal. Steve Krashen has responded with an alternative report called Phonics and reading: Some basics. As usual, he cuts through the fog and provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}