Reminds one of phonics and whole words.
Miranda Devine in March 20, 2008 wrote:
The children's author Paul Jennings was on Radio National this week, declaring again how easy and natural it is for children to learn to read by osmosis. All that is needed, it seems, is for their parents to read them bedtime stories before they start school. Jennings is an advocate of the discredited "whole language" theory of reading, which holds that reading, like talking, comes naturally to children, who will absorb the meanings of words if exposed to enough books.
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