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- 1991 Alternatives in Understanding and Educating Attention
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On contrasting paradigms in science and reading theory
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On contrasting paradigms in reading theory, with pedagogical
implications
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On pedagogical theory, derived from the "new" paradigm in
science
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the Australian Reading Association and the Association for the
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On whole language theory
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(Winter 1991-92), 11-19.
- 1991 "Whole Language and Its Potential for Developing Readers."
Topics in Language Disorders, 11 (3), 28-44.
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On brain functioning in the reading process
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Metaphor." In I. Pringle, A. Freedman, & L. Clarke (Eds.), Emerging
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On political factors in the teaching of intensive phonics
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On a theory of writing development, with pedagogical
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Reviews
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Popular and Pedagogical Articles and Documents
On teaching students with Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity)
Disorder
- 1994 "Reaching Kids with Attention Deficit Disorders: Why Whole
Language Helps." Instructor, May/June, 39-43.
- 1992 "The Promise of Whole Language Education for Students with
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On phonics: research, politics, and teaching
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ERIC Digest. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English,
and Communication.
- "Phonics Revisited." ERIC: ED 370 090. To be available
on-line, as part of "the best of ERIC."
- 1990 "Weighing Claims of `Phonics First' Advocates."
Education Week, 9 (March 28), 32, 23.
- 1992 Drafted seven information sheets, mostly on phonics but some
on whole language, for a packet of information sheets published by
CELT, the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking.
On basal reading programs
- 1988 "Basal Readers and the State of
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On whole language
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On assessment
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On reading analysis, reading theory, and the teaching of reading
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- 1979 "Psycholinguistics and Reading: From Process to
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- 1979 "A Psycholinguistic Look at the Informal Reading
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Inventory" (with Laura Smith). Reading Horizons, 19 (Winter),
103-111.
- 1978 "A Psycholinguistic Look at the Informal Reading
Inventory, Part I: Looking at the Quality of Readers' Miscues"
(with Laura Smith). Reading Horizons, 19 (Fall), 12-22.
- 1977 "Using Context: Before or After?" Language Arts, 54
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articles on reading, 1994.]
On dialects
- 1975 "Response to William Pixton, `A Contemporary Dilemma:
The Question of Standard English,' CCC 25 (October, 1974),
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