Why Johnny Can't Read

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Why Johnny Can't Read was a 1955 book by Rudolph Flesch famous for forcefully supporting the use of phonics to teach reading, harshly attacking the purveyors of the then-ascendant Word method (or Whole Word method), and launching what have come to be called the Reading Wars.