I encourage you to read the following articles and materials:
Margaret Mead Page
Articles:
Phonemic Awareness—a term that has become widely known and researched only in the last few years
Readers Theatre scripts:
“A Day in the Life of Police Officer”
I also invite you to read my article “Whole Language: What It Is, What It Isn’t” on the website of the AVKO Dyslexia Research Foundation. There I discuss what used to be known as the “psycholinguistic” approach to reading. It is more a philosophy, a framework, a theory, an orientation, rather than a reading program.