Balanced Literacy 

“Balanced literacy is an approach for teaching literacy that is widely used in classrooms across the country. It involves several methods of teaching and learning reading and writing, whole class instruction directed by the teacher with independent work in reading, writing, and oral language. By integrating a variety of approaches, a balance is achieved in which students learn to understand text (from a whole language approach) as well as how to read text (from a phonics approach). "

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