tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015850011526175838.post717428061398655627..comments2023-11-05T06:06:40.087-06:00Comments on NCTE Elementary Section: Outrageous ClaimsNCTEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12254024796847309329noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015850011526175838.post-39134751948648407542008-05-03T18:37:00.000-06:002008-05-03T18:37:00.000-06:00Like you, I was googling my name and ran across yo...Like you, I was googling my name and ran across your comment. Kaufman is a rather accomplished scholar. To take issue with his statements you would be better of checking his references. As a pediatric psychologist, I have run across hundreds of victims of whole language in 30 years of practice. My own son was such a victim at the start of third grade (his language was superbly developed, so comprehension was never a problem - decoding and fluency were). He was brought from 49 words a minute with no reading comprehension of passages he struggled through (you try to remember the start of a sentence when you reach the end at a rate of less than one word per second) to 250 words a minute and full comprehension in 13 hours of rate building in a University clinic with a first year grad student as his therapist. Do that with whole language and I'll eat my Ph.D.! Nevertheless, read the whole book and I think you get a few laughs and learn a few useful facts. Besides, I get almost two dollars in royalties when you buy iy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com