Literacy

       Found some really good reading in the book, Breakthrough in Beginning Reading and Writing, by J. Richard Gentry. Dr. Gentry has a lifetime full of studying/teaching reading education in the classroom and university. He is highly qualified with his 16 years of research and writing in literacy education.  He has published Breaking the Code: The New Scienceof Beginning Reading and Writing and the Science of Spelling.
      Dr. Gentry talks about in his book, Breakthrough in Beginning Reading and Writing, about the process of every aspect of literacy coming together, working harmoniously to create a literate student.
      On page 66, " Writing for reading makes sense because invented spelling is the perfect vehicle for code breaking. Writing puts both meaning and phonics first and helps the child synthesize knowledge enabling her to understand how aspects of reading and writing- such as letter knowledge, sound correspondences, directionality, phonemic awareness, phonics and sleeping, book concepts, and the concept of 'what is a word'- fit together. These are all the dots the child must connect into one grand unified process called reading."