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Reading without nonsense

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Teachers College Press, 2006 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 163 pages

Reading Without Nonsense remains a groundbreaking, humanistic antidote to the managed "systems" approach to reading instruction. In his extensively revised fourth edition, Frank Smith brings teachers and teacher educators up to date on how reading should not be taught. It is a necessary reminder that reading and learning to read are natural activities.

There is a massive assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. Now more important than ever, Reading Without Nonsense, Fourth Edition provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view. As Frank Smith emphasizes, the act of reading has never changed despite all the changes in materials, procedures, and methodology proposed by people with an interest in how reading is taught.

This text remains one of the most authoritative, influential, informative, and accessible texts on reading and learning to read. This bestseller is popular with classroom teachers and university professors as well as administrators, parents, and everyone concerned with literacy and education.

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User Review  - Kelly - Goodreads

An amazing book. Loved it. "Learning to read involves no special learning skills". Children learn to read despite the way they are "taught". Read full review

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Excellent, no-nonsense book that reminds us how natural an act it can be to read. His main idea that reading must make sense to the learner, and so must reading instruction makes this a very controversial book on literacy.

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JSTOR: Reading without Nonsense
Reading Without Nonsense, Frank Smith. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1979, 166 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Barbara Pettegrew, ...
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Syllabus
Reading Without Nonsense. Teachers College Press: New York.3rd edition. Modus Operandi: Each week I will assign new readings that you should complete by ...
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Accelerated Learning Theory
Reading Without Nonsense. Columbia University, NY: Teachers College Press, 1979. Stauffer, Russell. Teaching Reading As A Thinking Process. ...
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Bringing Literature into Your Classroom
In Reading Without Nonsense, Frank Smith ex-. amines the process of reading, the perceptual and. language skills involved, and how nonreaders per- ...
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English Language Arts: A Bibliography for the Elementary Level ...
Reading Without Nonsense. 2nd ed. (Print-Teacher Reference). Smith, Frank (CAN). Teacher's College Press (GUI), 1985. 166 p. ISBN 0-8077-2768-7 ($21.25 pbk. ...
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"I read Frank Smith's book ("Reading Without Nonsense") as part of research on the reading wars, the history of education, and for an essay about Rudolph ...
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Reading Without Nonsense. New York: Teachers College Press. Tovani, Chris. (2000). .... As you read the chapters in Reading Without Nonsense, note ...
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Reading without nonsense: Making sense of reading. ... Surely he is not referring to his own book when he writes about reading without nonsense. ...
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reading list: The Theory and Practice of Teaching English
Reading Without Nonsense. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. Tate, G., Rupiper, A., and A. Schick, eds. Guide to Composition Pedagogies. ...
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About the author (2006)

Frank Smith has been a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A number of his books and professional articles have become classics among educators.

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TitleReading without nonsense
AuthorFrank Smith
Edition4, illustrated
PublisherTeachers College Press, 2006
ISBN080774686X, 9780807746868
Length163 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills
  
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