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

True or False


1	When Ms. Kay misspells words and leaves out key punctuation in her morning message, she is following a typical pattern of morning message implementation.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


2	Three broad categories of knowledge about reading and writing are discourse knowledge, decoding knowledge, and affective knowledge.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


3	Teachers who follow a balanced approach to teaching reading should avoid the use of literature anthology basals.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


4	Don Holdaway is responsible for creating the language experience approach in 1980.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


5	When implementing the language experience approach, teachers are encouraged to record students' language exactly as expressed.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


6	One benefit of teaching with an overhead projector instead of a chalkboard is that teachers can face their students as they write.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


7	In the final phase of a shared reading lesson, students are evaluated on their comprehension.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


8	When teachers form students into flexible groups, the students remain in these designated groups for the remainder of the school term.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


9	Cooperative Reading Activities (CRAs) are most often used in novel units.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


10	A typical reader's workshop for older students begins with a mini-lesson and ends with a time for sharing reading.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.

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