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Getting Back to School: Approaching Balanced Literacy
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Back to school season is an exciting time for teachers and learners. We begin a new year, fresh with enthusiasm and with the psychological benefits of the experiences behind us.
Preparing to get back into the classroom has had me reflecting on a variety of ways to engage young readers and writers. What strategies can we use to find a balance? In a truly balanced literacy program, how you teach is as important as what you teach.
That's one of the conclusions that numreous local teachers, administrators, and curriculum supervisors have shared with me over the years. Like most educators today, we've been changing our practices to reflect new knowledge about learning and teaching. Our students are reading more, writing more, and learning through themes. Yet we share a mixed bag of excitement and uneasiness — excitement about the learning taking place in our classrooms every day, and uneasiness about the public perception that schools are not as good as they used to be,...
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