Nearly 25 years ago a federal study of research on reading showed that knowing phonemes and phonics is fundamental to learning to read. Yet many teacher training programs and district curricula do not focus on
Cursive –“School cursive, called in my day Palmer penmanship, had evolved from an elaborate decorative script invented for engraving in copper, a very slow and painstaking form of writing that had nothing to do with speed. Someone, somewhere, decided that it would be nice if children learned...
Having actually seen a well-meaning agent tell an indignant crowd that he really only took seriously query letters from writers he met at conferences (yes, really; there were many, many witnesses), I can tell you precisely what would happen if some honest soul did take this astounding step:...