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Structured Literacy vs Balanced Literacy
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Is Your Child’s School Teaching Reading Wrong?

Sold a Story podcast is making teachers angry that they teach reading wrong “I feel guilty and tricked.” Group Member of The Facebook Group “The Science of Reading – What I Should Have Learned in College” Teachers all across America are listening to Emily Hanford’s podcast, Sold a Story, and they feel angry. Angry that

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Summer tutoring helps summer slide in Lafayette CA
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Can Summer Tutoring Help in Lafayette, CA?

Find out how summer tutoring can help your child avoid summer slide in reading from Orinda to Walnut Creek What is summer slide? And how does summer tutoring help? “’Summer slide’ refers to the loss in reading skills that can occur when students are not exposed to quality reading materials during the summer.”  Raz-Kids and

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Whole Language & Phonics: A Tale of My Two Daughters’ Reading

Whole language and phonics: which is better? The different paths that my two daughters took, through their different schooling experiences (because of where I worked as a teacher) to learn to read, taught me that: 40% of children will learn to read after a year of instruction in first grade no matter the method and

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