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4 Blocks in Balanced Literacy
Everything you need to know about teaching reluctant readers/writers. Excellent approaches and strategies.

A Guided Reading Approach
An all encompassing site to help you with your reading program. Emphasis on guided reading will be extremely helpful to the learning disabled student.

An Approach to Balanced Literacy/Reading
See examples, strategies and lesson plans to support and enhance reading with the varying abilities in your classroom.

An Excellent Approach to Teach Reading and Writing
Have you heard of the 4 blocks approach? This is one of the best strategies to support learning disabled children in your classroom.

Foudations of Balanced Literacy
Find out how to implement shared, guided and independent reading to meet the varied needs of reading abilities in your classroom.

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Practical Strategies to Teach Reading
By Dorothy Strickland. In a truly balanced literacy program, how you teach is as important as what you teach.

Resources to Teach Children to Read
Helping struggling readers to read. A variety of tips and strategies and good advice to improve student reading.

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