Balanced+Literacy

What is Balanced Literacy?

Balanced Literacy has replaced the whole language approach for teaching reading and writing. It is a differentiated learning instruction method to make sure all students have the chance to succeed.

Balanced literacy is an assessment based approach for finding each student's individual reading/writing level. Each student has an individual reading level and writing process that is explictly taught to them. The teacher will do a guided reading in a small group for the different levels. The teacher usually reads from trade books. In the small groups, the teacher will teach the students strategies to improve their reading and writing.