Reading Without Nonsense by Frank Smith

Reading Without Nonsense by Frank Smith

Reading Without Nonsense remains a groundbreaking, humanistic antidote to the managed systems approach to reading instruction. In his extensively revised fourth edition, Frank Smith brings teachers and teacher educators up to date on how reading should not be taught. It is a necessary reminder that reading and learning to read are natural activities. There is a massive assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. Now more important than ever, Reading Without Nonsense, Fourth Edition provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view. As Frank Smith emphasizes, the act of reading has never changed despite all the changes in materials, procedures, and methodology proposed by people with an interest in how reading is taught. Reading Without Nonsense remains one of the most authoritative, influential, informative, and accessible texts on reading and learning to read. as well as administrators, parents, and everyone concerned with literacy and education.

Frank Smith has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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ISBN 13	9780807746868
ISBN 10	080774686X
Title	Reading Without Nonsense
Author	Frank Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Teachers' College Press
Year published	2006-01-30
Number of pages	176
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