Balanced Literacy
The No Child Left Behind Act, passed by Congress in 2002, led to the creation of Reading First, a program that aims to ensure that every child can read at or above grade level by the end of the third...
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In writing this book, I visited a number of districts that professed to pursue balanced literacy, a philosophy, not a program. School systems use the term as they wish, though, and what passes as...
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Some grew animated as they described the mental images they had formed; others hardly knew what to say. “What did you see?” the teacher prodded them, slowly drawing out the word “stuffed” as if to...
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Top administrators referred to their approach as “constructivist,” by which educators usually mean that students are supposed to build their knowledge from clues and from what they already know. “We...
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