Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is a part of the By the Book ...

Until recently, St. Charles schools – like many across Louisiana and the country – taught students to read using a method called “balanced literacy,” where teachers give short lessons on ...

The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word recognition and context clues. Policies have vacillated back and forth for over a century, but since 2019, the science of reading ...

Since the late 1990s, most American students have been taught to read according to an approach called balanced literacy, which de-emphasizes phonics and explicit decoding in favor of fostering ...

The law made Wisconsin one of about 40 states nationwide that took action in recent years to promote a shift away from reading instruction often labeled “balanced literacy” toward instruction ...

California has joined a national effort to change how reading is being taught. States nationwide are rethinking balanced literacy, which has its roots in whole language instruction or teaching ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...