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“As the story progresses, and he decides to go electric, the colors become more vibrant, and we are a little bit faster-paced with the whole language of our storytelling,” he says.

The whole language game exists to conceal that contradiction.

But many schools have also used a rival curriculum called the “whole language” approach, which generally de-emphasizes phonics.

Science-of-reading advocates are continuing to gain ground with policymakers compared with the rival “whole language” approach, which, in general, de-emphasizes phonics.

The teaching of reading has largely been framed as a battle between phonics and whole language.