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Teaching Reading: A Balanced Approach for Today's Classrooms
Pamela Farris, Northern Illinois University
Carol Fuhler, Iowa State University
Maria Walther

An Overview of Instructional Strategies That Support a Balanced Approach

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1

Identify and describe the different types of writing that students will experience in a balanced literacy classroom? (Hint: see pages 115-118!)
2

Explain the differences between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness and come up with a way to remember which is which? (Hint: see pages 110-111!)
3

Identify and describe the steps in a guided reading lesson? (Hint: see page 104!)
4

Name and describe different types of published reading series? (Hint: see pages 88-90!)
5

List the seven factors identified by Fountas and Pinnell (1996) that are key to creating levels for leveled books for guided reading lessons? (Hint: see page 96!)