The science of reading and balanced literacy:
What you need to know
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.
But as sometimes happens when messages hit the loudspeaker, some distortion has fuzzied the clarity. As the message gets picked up and passed along by new advocates, like in a game of telephone, it can shift a bit away from its original meaning.
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