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Gray was the leading expert on reading in the first half of the 20th century. He promoted the whole word method of teaching reading supported by attention to context, configuration, structural and graphophonemic cues.
Literacy Efforts. Gray's assessment experience made him aware of student reading difficulties and the necessity to fit instruction to the perceived weaknesses of students. In 1922 this led to an influential book titled Remedial Cases in Reading: Their Diagnosis and Correction.
To demonstrate this, I will first summarize Freire's approach, then compare it step by step with Gray's four aspects of reading and a. series of recommendations for effec- tive reading programs offered by. Robinson. Freire's method (1973) requires five preparatory phases.
The first offers the history of reading research in the 1950s, when the “conventional wisdom” in reading was established by acclaimed lead-ers in the field like William Gray, who encouraged teachers to instruct chil-dren how to read whole words while avoiding isolated phonics drills.
Feb 10, 2023 · The Teaching of Reading and Writing by William S. Gray. Publication date 1956 Publisher Scott, Foresman and Company Collection
Nov 27, 2011 · Born June 5, 1885, and an Adams County school student, William S. Gray is credited with changing the way children in America over five decades learned to read.
William S. Gray was the preeminent reading educator. According to Arthur Gates, "Dr, Gray labored to improve the teaching of reading fora longer period of time (more than half a century), with greater singleness of purpose and in a wider variety of enterprises than anyone else in history.".
