Thanks for a Sane Article on Reading

* Thank goodness for your sane report on the subject of reading (“A Bookish Debate,” Sept. 14). If all parents were able to send teachers children who are ready to learn, every reading and writing session could look like Pam Corey’s at Van Nuys Elementary.

It’s our families that desperately need our help, not the language arts curriculum. The phonic panacea has been touted for years.

BETTE SIMONS

Sherman Oaks