This widely adopted text and K-8 practitioner resource demonstrates how successful literacy teachers combine explicit skills instruction with an emphasis on reading for meaning. Distinguished researcher Richard L. Allington builds on the late Michael Pressley's work to explain the theories and findings that guide balanced teaching and illustrate what exemplary lessons look like in action. Detailed examples offer a window into highly motivating classrooms...
Defining whole-language or for that matter the skills-emphasis approach to literacy has been as elusive to many in the teaching profession as the recovery of the lost ark. In Michael Pressley's newest book Reading Instruction That Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching, he makes a gallant attempt and a plea to stop the confusion and start the process of a constructivist "balanced approach" to literacy. It is a must read...
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