Recent media stories about education have featured the "science of reading," whose proponents typically present the systematic teaching of phonics as a one-size-fits-all method that guarantees reading success for all students. But as literacy scholars Patricia Paugh and Deborah MacPhee demonstrate, the decoding of words is only one dimension essential to an effective early literacy education. In Learning to Be Literate, Paugh and MacPhee present a four-part framework for active literacy learning that eschews oppositional arguments about different approaches, and instead situates children as meaning makers. There is no single or simple solution that will fit every child. By drawing on the authors' ALL framework to inform instruction, educators can help young learners think deeply about ideas and language, while they simultaneously learn to work out the sounds and symbol systems of language.
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