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Peer reviewedMaclean, Rod – Reading Teacher, 1988
Claims that even though teaching phonics is an effective method of reading instruction, the skills taught by phonics have little to do with the process of reading acquisition. Offers two methods of resolving the paradoxes generated by this situation. (NH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
