Soundings on literacy debate
20 September 1996
As staff at the Crewe and Didsbury schools of education of
Manchester Metropolitan University, we wish to dissociate
ourselves from the comments about teacher training and
literacy made by Alan Davies in his letter (TES, August 30).
No evidence supports claims that "the millions of
children with poor reading and spelling skills are the
unnecessary consequence of newly-qualified teachers being
brainwashed by teacher-trainers into using the One Letter
Makes One Sound Method to teach reading and spelling".
We would be pleased to explain in detail to him the variety
of approaches used in our schools of education that lead to
balanced, thoughtful and successful methods of teaching of
reading and spelling. The comments of Office for Standards in
Education inspectors were most complimentary following both
our recent inspections.
We wish to emphasise that Mr Davies's letter expressed a
personal view.
IRIS KEATING On behalf of the English subject team Crewe
School of Education SYLVIA PHILLIPS and ANNE CAMPBELL Didsbury
School of Education The Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester
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