Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading

by James V. Hoffman, Ann M. Duffy-Hester, James F. Baumann, et al.

Book Overview

This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving the quality of literacy instruction in the United States--by recentering the debate from "What's better, 'whole language' or 'phonics'?" to "What...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080582913X
• ISBN13: 9780805829136
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"