Hazel Loring

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Hazel Logan Loring (1902 - 1983) was born in Massachusetts in 1902. Hazel Loring viewed the recent history of reading instruction from the unique perspective of one who taught under both the phonics and the "whole word" method.

After attending what is now the University of Massachusetts for two years, she had her first experience teaching phonics in 1923-24. While raising a family of three children, she maintained a keen interest in reading problems and later returned to the teaching profession. Mrs. Loring earned her B.S. in Education from Wayne State University, received her Michigan State Permanent Elementary Certificate, and taught a first grade classroom in Oscoda, Michigan for ten years from 1960 to 1970.

As a retired teacher she joined the Reading Reform Foundation and served as its Michigan Chairman. She was a member of the NRTA and a Retired Member of the NEA.

She developed her own phonics lessons, Blend phonics, to meet the challenges of teaching large classes.

For her work promoting phonics and her contribution of Blend phonics, she was awarded the Watson Washburn Memorial Award for Excellence in Education in 1982.^[1]