http://rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5984
Maggie explains the purpose of her posting:
Heather recently posted a blog about SSP which provoked a bit of a twitter storm and a series of exchanges over the quality of the evidence with another RRF message board contributor who posted her own blog in response.
She goes on to say...
Please do read the rest of Maggie's posting if you have any interest in the history of reading instruction...I felt that the 'history' of reading instruction' run through in the second blog was, to say the least, vague and inaccurate, and tried to write a response. This has turned out to be extremely long so I am posting it here instead. It is not a polished piece of work, nor does it address everything but I have tried to be show how instructional methods have taken hold over the past 10 years or so.
I realise that I could have gone further, looking at reports such as Bullock and Warnock but this isn't an undergraduate essay.
I might also say that reading Huey is a real eyeopener. Diack comments that much of what had been written about reading prior to his own book (1965) could be found in Huey, though as the 20th C progressed it was increasingly unattributed. The same could be said now in that much of what Huey said is still being said today.
The power of Ruling Theory at work!