It's enough to make me weep, to read the born-yesterday review of reading instruction history in this well-meant book. Based on my 40 years of experience teaching, researching and writing, I finally wrote my last(2004) very short book, The Born Yesterday World of the Reading Experts which includes a very brief(but still totally ignored) picture of the real history. The true history is discussed at length in my (still totally ignored) 2001 three-volume The History of Beginning Reading, from Teaching by Sound to Teaching by Meaning. I continue to be astonished that the real facts of reading instruction history which I have recorded in great detail, after massive library research, are treated as "anathema".



Geraldine E. Rodgers