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# Hooked on Phonics (and Common Sense)
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1247/
- Published: 2005-06-04T16:56:02.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-04T16:56:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Education, #wpChunk

Some different fare: Britain's whole-word reading programs that were imposed by the government have been a disaster. Bring back phonics, says this editorial. [Link to *Telegraph*](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/04/dl0401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/06/04/ixopinion.html&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> The phonics-versus-whole-word teaching controversy mirrors the larger debate about education. Whole-word teaching descends from the general to the particular, and it is no coincidence that it depends for its dissemination on a centralised educational bureaucracy. Phonics teaching, by contrast, is bottom-up, working on the basis that words take their shape from their parts. This is the correct model for education overall.