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

'Science of reading,' whole language,' 'balanced literacy': How can Wisconsin resolve its ‘reading wars’ and teach kids to read? Alan J. Borsuk Special to the Journal Sentinel Editor's note: With low ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...