The Balanced Approach to Literacy

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This paper examines the two general approaches that have evolved to govern reading education, specifically phonics and whole language approaches. The paper discusses the contrasting underlying philosophies that these approaches represent and analyzes the different skills that they stress. The paper then focuses on the balanced approach to reading education.

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"There are specific activities and application settings by which to integrate the balanced approach while relying heavily on the teacher's professional adaptive ability to adapt the best and most effective goal of research approach that they as instructors are innately entrusted with creating. Instructors must generate the most productive environment for learning.
"In the workshop setting, where students are reading books aloud together, or reading their own work aloud together. The types of work is determined by the specific differentiated learning unit, which can be indeed into learning units over the course of the year, from reading works of literature that may stir inspiration in the student, to reading aloud examples of each of the types of the literature according to learning unit, which the students are then assigned to emulate themselves and then read out loud in the next workshop."

Sample of Sources Used:

• The Balanced Literacy program. (2008) www.kauffman.org/pdf/balanced_lit_brochure.pdf
• Light House Community Charter School: In Our Classrooms - Literacy Development http://www.lighthousecharter.org/ioc/literacy.html
• Tompkins, Gail. (2005) Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach Prentice Hall. Publication Date: 2005 New York.
• Wren, Sebastian. (2008) What does a "balanced approach" to reading instruction mean?" Retrieved September 23, 2004: http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/balanced_approach_reading.htm

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