Phonics Exposed: Understanding and Resisting Systematic Direct Intense Phonics Instruction

What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time?

This book addresses the question through an in-depth play-by-play description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a real classroom, followed by chapters that look at it from different angles by "zooming in" on one facet to analyze it closely:
*Reading. What is reading? What definition of reading is presented (implicitly)...