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Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It

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The classic bestseller on phonics—the method that can teach children to read in six weeks.

In 1955, Dr. Rudolf Flesch published Why Johnny Can't Read, a sharp criticism of teaching methods being used in American schools—methods, he argued, that were failing children and lowering the nation's literacy rates in comparison to other countries. He championed a return to phonics, which emphasized learning letters and their sounds rather than trying to memorize whole words and recognize them on si...