Sold a Story is a serial podcast about the rise and fall of balanced literacy and other non-research-based methods of teaching children to read. It was distributed by American Public Media and created by Emily Hanford. It was wildly popular, with over 3.5 million downloads in 2023 alone,[1][2][3][4] and has been credited with helping accelerate the rise of phonics-based education and the fall of whole language.
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[edit]- ^ Korbey, Holly (2024-08-09). "How a Podcast Toppled the Reading Instruction Canon". Edutopia. Archived from the original on 2025-06-11. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
- ^ "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, APM reports".
- ^ Emily Hanford (October 20, 2022). "Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong, The Hechinger Report".
- ^ "New Podcast! Sold A Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, DYSLEXIAHELP, The Regents of the University of Michigan".
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