Share your thoughts on reading methods

Among many just-plain-dumb utterances I've made over my lifetime, two stick out far from all others. Topping the heap is the time I excitedly announced to my then wife, Becky Grimm, that she was having a contraction. This brilliant deduction on my part was reached when the fetal-monitor screen indicated great, sudden activity.

Coming in at number two was my cynical comment made during the scheduling of education methods classes just prior to my student teaching experience.

"Why does a secondary social studies teacher need to take a reading methods course?"

If you're a veteran teacher, you not only know the answer, but you probably cringed at how obtuse the question was.

By the end of my student teaching experience, I already knew the answer to my own question. It's been twenty-one years since I took that class, and as I type this post, the textbook from that class, Content Area Literacy-Interactive Teaching for Active Learning, 2nd, ed., authors Anthony V. Manzo and Ula Manzo. lies next to my computer at the top a stack of three books I recently consulted while planning lessons.

I make it a practice of reading just about any article that I see that explains or discusses the subject of reading. I'm curious to know what fellow readers think about this opinion piece in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/sunday/phonics-teaching-reading-wrong-way.html?