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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE
Volume 3 Number 3

COVER STORY
Harry & Rosemary Wong ask, "Is it possible that a school district would have no openings at a time of worldwide teacher shortages? But more importantly, why were there no openings in the Medford School District?"...
COLUMNS
Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon
Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
Online Classrooms by Leslie Bowman
The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
Around the Block by Cheryl Ristow
Ask the Literacy Teacher by Leigh Hall
Instant Ideas for Busy Teachers by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber
ARTICLES
Every Day is Read Across America Day!
Music is...
Ten Pennies and Ten Dimes
Swinging on the Education Pendulum
Literature Circles
Internet Based Interaction in the Classroom
Intelligence
How to Create A Bad Acceptable Use Policy Document (And Have It Survive)!
Safety on College Campuses
The Montessori Mystery
Playing Baseball in the Classroom - A Flexible, Adaptable Game to Motivate Your Students
Whither Not Social Studies!
When Bright Kids Say, "I'm Bored!"
Book Review: Comprehension Instruction
Teacher Social Groups
Retaining Principals
TEACHER INSPIRATION FEATURE
Today I Learned
ON-SITE GEMS
Things You NEVER Thought You'd Have to Say…or Hear
What Was Your Most Unforgettable Show and Tell?
ON-SITE INSIGHTS
How Do You Deal With Middle School Students' Apathy?
OPINION
Why Reading Scores Across the Nation Have Declined
REGULAR FEATURES
Apple Seeds
Special Days This Month
Poem - Searching for the Gold
The Lighter Side of Teaching
  • YENDOR'S Top Ten
  • A Challenging Foot Feat
  • Schoolies
  • Woodhead
  • Handy Teacher Recipes
    Classroom Crafts
    Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs
    Featured Lesson from the Lesson Bank
  • Here Comes the Train
  • Upcoming Ed Conferences
    Letters to the Editor
    Chatboard Poll, What changes has your district made in an effort to raise test scores?
    FYI
    Action Against Hunger Project
    Explore Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud Forest
    Third Annual Music Education Survey Gets Underway
    Gazette Home Delivery:

    Letters to the Editor...
    Teaching the saying of words, not reading, with phonics

    To those who glorify phonics as a way
    to 'read', I say: make distinctions.
    Phonics may help a child say words. It
    does not cause a child to get meaning.
    Phonics is not a panacea. Phonics is a
    piece of the balanced meal. No one would
    eat carrots all their life and say; I am
    well fed. It doesn't work.

    I can say Spanish words fluently, one
    after the other. I have no clue what it
    is all about. I can say French words
    fluently too. I have no clue as to what
    it all means. People who glorify phonics
    haven't taught very long, or maybe, not
    very well. A piece of something is never
    the whole thing. gh

    Georgia Hedrick, saraw1@msn.com,
    3/17/02

    This month's letters:

  • ADD, 3/31/02, by Dennis.
  • Teaching Reading With Phonics, 3/31/02, by AP.
  • phonics, 3/27/02, by stewart e brekke.
  • Teaching reading, 3/25/02, by Sandy Scarborough.
  • Teaching reading, 3/25/02, by Sandy Scarborough.
  • Reading Scores, 3/23/02, by Cindy Helms.
  • Teaching reading, 3/23/02, by Nancy Healy.
  • teaching reading with phonics, 3/23/02, by Jan Wolfe.
  • teaching reading with phonics, 3/23/02, by barbara.
  • Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary , 3/22/02, by Jayne Ameri.
  • Age Discrimination, 3/20/02, by Daren Jack.
  • Teaching the saying of words, not reading, with phonics, 3/17/02, by Georgia Hedrick.
  • publishing, 3/07/02, by stewart e brekke.
  • Post secondary Education, 3/05/02, by Shanks Seetharam.
  • Teaching Reading with Phonics, 3/04/02, by Marilyn Rebert.

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