From the January/February 2024 LATA newsletter: here
Canadian Journal of Education book review of Heather Willms and G. Alberti’s 2022 book.
Written By: Danielle Neer, Teacher (School District 23), Councillor (British Columbia Teachers’ Council), Vice- President (LATA)
Motivated in part by the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s release of The Right to Read report (2019), the current focus in pre-service teacher education and in- service professional development for Canadian teachers is to move away from using a “balanced literacy” approach toward the “science of reading,” with a “structured literacy” approach to teaching reading. Willms and Alberti’s This is How We Teach Reading…And It’s Working (2022) provides a succinct manual for supporting one of the five pillars of reading instruction: phonics.
Together with phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, explicit phonics instruction provides specific skills and knowledge so that all students can access learning.
Read the full review here: https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/6455/3565