Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'

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Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'

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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
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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
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Re: Prof Snow: 'Balanced Literacy: An instructional bricolage that is neither fish nor fowl'

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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
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