Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are struggling to read?
An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.
"My sister once asked a rather dim girl at our high school if she had had a lobotomy. The girl responded, 'No, I can still have kids.'” ...
Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Balanced Literacy downplays "structured phonics," the older technique where kids memorize letters' sounds and learn to sound out words. Balanced Literacy does sound more fun than boring phonics drills ...
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