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Developing a Balanced Approach to Teach Reading

Balanced literacy. Using all four approaches when teaching reading.
Practical Strategies to Teach Reading
By Dorothy Strickland. In a truly balanced literacy program, how you teach is as important as what you teach.
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.
Family Literacy Lessons
Helpful lessons to support enhanced literacy at home. Includes printables and teaching suggestions.
Resources for Literacy
Regardless of the reading difficulties, you'll find a wealth of resources to assist improvement in literacy.
Resources to Teach Children to Read
Helping struggling readers to read. A variety of tips and strategies and good advice to improve student reading.
Especially For Parents
Parents wishing to help improve literacy with their children will find this site to be extremely helpful. Strategies and tips provided.
4 Blocks in Balanced Literacy
Everything you need to know about teaching reluctant readers/writers. Excellent approaches and strategies.
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.
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.

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