You see, some of the pictures don’t give a great deal of information on where they were taken. In the 1960s, the number of studies on the teaching of reading numbered in the thousands. Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, came back to America after a visit to Europe determined to change the way reading was taught—from a bottom-up approach in which letters and sounds were learned before words, to a top-down approach in which words were learned first. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Where can I find an example of an American public elementary school curriculum from the early-to-mid 1960s? posted by bagadonuts to Education (5 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite When you think of Afghanistan's history, you probably don't think of short skirts, nice cars, and liberal 60s styles, but just as Iran looked very different in the 1970s, these historical pictures show that Afghanistan in the 1960s was a very different country than the one that exists today. One aspect that gained prominence was the need to read more quickly. They had been able to read, but in work and everyday life they read little; because they didn't use it, they lost it. I'm particularly interested in the fourth and fifth grades -- what books did they read, what kind of math and science was typically taught, etc. Teaching of reading became an industry supplying not only textbooks but also reading machines. https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1960s I was deeply saddened to read yesterday of the death of Sheila K. McCullagh MBE ( 3 December 1920 – 7 July 2014 ) . Other types of reading and writing, such as pictograms (e.g., a hazard symbol and an emoji), are not based on speech based writing systems. However, the pendulum swung back in the 1960s, when much educational research concluded that children learn to read well only if primary programs emphasize systematic, explicitly taught phonics. Some accounted for the high adult illiteracy by lack of practice. In addition, a group of educators believed that reading comprehension could not be taught… An old disagreement over how to teach children to read -- whole-language versus phonics -- has re-emerged in California, in a new form. She was an author who touched the hearts of children growing up in the 60's, 70's 80's and 90's with numerous series of schoolbooks. R ... ies in a variety of subject matter areas since the late 1960s. “SRA Reading Laboratory 2.0 is an interactive, personalized reading practice program based on the classic SRA Reading Laboratory print program created by Don H. Parker, PhD. vii lation with the performance of children in other nations, and, thus, ... teach-ers, and schools do and provide. We’ve got some wonderful pictures of Reading in the 1960s and early 70s, and we need your help. Findings From the IEA Reading Literacy Study R eading Literacy in the United States.