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Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'
Posted: Sat May 13, 2017 11:52 am
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Professor Pamela Snow has written a very helpful post demonstrating the unhelpfulness of the term 'Balanced Literacy' which I thought should be on our 'Research and Recommended Reading' forum as well as our 'General Forum', see here:
http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... 1491#p1491
Re: Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:07 pm
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
Yet another important piece by Pamela challenging the illusion of 'authentic' literature for reading instruction, to the neglect of planned systematic and explicit phonics teaching:
The authentic illusion in early literacy education
http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk
Re: Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:45 am
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
I'm cross-referencing Pam's post with the very famous paper by Dr Louisa Moats:
Whole Language Lives On: The Illusion of Balanced Reading Instruction
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=820&p=1530#p1530