The science of reading and balanced literacy:
What you need to know
By Cindy Jiban, PhD
Principal Academic Lead, Early Learning
The science of reading and balanced literacy: What you need to know
A strong call has been reverberating through the early literacy education community: we need to reform our practice to align to the science of reading.
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