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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with the previous post. No doubt, it was time to rebalance literacy instruction. Tompkins (2011) explained that reading, phonemic awareness and phonics, literacy strategies, vocabulary, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing and spelling should all be included in a balanced literacy program. Many schools did not include phonemic awareness and phonics instruction over the past decade, although Calkin’s curriculum did include Phonics Units of Study (far from best phonics curriculum). There is now a need to rebalance literacy instruction by ensuring schools have explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction without setting aside comprehension, writing, and spelling, for example. Many private schools uses an explicit phonics (“SoR”) program like OG or Fundations AND Units of Study, which is a balance. If schools move entirely to “SoR” as it’s being defined, we will need another rebalance in the next decade.[/quote]

Not just for a decade. Whole language type instruction with little emphasis on phonics and phonemic awareness was in place at least as far back as 1990.[/quote]

This is correct, but the Units of Study in Reading first launched a decade ago (thread was originally about Lucy Calkin’s curriculum, not broader whole language approach).[/quote]

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