Topics in Early Reading Coherence:
What Does a Balanced Literacy Approach Mean?
Author: Sebastian Wren
Price: Online only
• Published: 2001
The Great Debate about reading has always centered around whether teachers should focus on Phonics instruction or Whole Language instruction when teaching children to read. Now a new philosophy, Balanced Reading, is gaining popular acceptance as a compromise. But isn't it possible that in all of the debate about the type of instruction that teachers should provide we have overlooked the question that should be at the center of attention? The important question we must always ask ourselves is, what do children need to learn?
