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Commentary: Are we teaching children to read the wrong way? (opens the original)
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For decades, many American classrooms taught reading through approaches often grouped under “balanced literacy.” In theory, balanced literacy sounded sensible: give children rich books, encourage a love of stories, teach some phonics, and help them use context to figure out unfamiliar words. But recent reporting and research have raised a troubling question: did schools, in trying to make reading feel natural, neglect the explicit instruction many children need? The concern is not that teachers
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