%0 Journal Article
%T HOW UNSCHOOLERS CAN HELP TO END TRADITIONAL READING INSTRUCTION
%A Karl F. WHEATLEY
%A Ph.D.
%J Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning
%D 2012
%I Nipissing University
%X Unschoolers can help end traditional, de-contextualized reading skills instruction, a change which might create other beneficial ripple effects. An unschooling parent and early childhood teacher educator, the author describes how his children learned to read without formal instruction. Next is a description of how prospective and practicing teachers react to this example, to examples of how children learned to read in alternative schools, and to reading research that clearly favors a more natural approach to learning to read. Five ways in which the unschooling model can influence others are described, and three specific suggestions for advocacy by unschoolers are outlined.
%K unschooling
%U https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjual.nipissingu.ca%2FNewIssue%2Fv7131.pdf