What Does a "Balanced Literacy Approach" Mean? [electronic resource] : Topics in Early Reading Coherence / Sebastian Wren.

The phonics and whole language approaches reflect very different underlying philosophies of reading instruction and stress very different skills. The philosophy underlying the whole language approach is that reading is a natural process, much like learning to speak, and that children exposed to a gr...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Wren, Sebastian
Corporate Author:	Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001.
Subjects:	Beginning Reading. Comparative Analysis. Phonics. Primary Education. Reading Instruction. Whole Language Approach.