https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?re ... 3364634596Richard E. Schutz Walk for Community Solutions
Faith describes the importance of Dick's understanding and work for the teaching of reading. Thanks to him, we have the BRI 'I see Sam' decodable reading books which are still used to this day.
Dick's simple phrase was: "Say the sounds, read the words".
We knew Dick in England, not just from his work in the US. Faith describes the huge impact Dick had on her teaching. Dick was a truly, special, clever and unusual man.
Dick made many great contributions regularly to conversations and debates via the UK Reading Reform Foundation message forum when the reading debate was building up in England - and, later, he contributed occasionally to our IFERI forum:
http://rrf.org.uk/messageforum/search.p ... id%5B%5D=1
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