The Science of Reading–that large body of research, practice and evidence in favour of direct and explicit teaching of the components of reading that should now be accepted as settled–identifies phonemic awareness as an indispensable component of early reading skills....
Noel Pearson
Explicit and Direct Instruction: The Zone of Proximal Development and the Function of Placement Testing in Direct Instruction
It’s hard to think of two more diametrically opposed figures in educational theory than Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky [1896-1934] and the American developer of Direct Instruction Siegfried Engelmann [1931-2019]. The first is the prophet of the social...