Assignment: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding
Introduction to Balanced Literacy
Read the following short web articles about balanced literacy:
1. What is balanced literacy? (PDF Attached)
2. Balanced Literacy Instruction: A Truce for the Reading War?
https://www.k12reader.com/balanced-literacy-instruction/
3. Components of balanced literacy. (PDF Attached)
Now, find and read an article published post-2000 about balanced literacy in a peer-reviewed journal from theInternational Reading Association. The Ashford University Library has access to these journals. (Challenge: Find an article that does not support balanced literacy.)
• Create a PowerPoint or Prezi (or feel free to use another digital tool with instructor approval). Your presentation title is "What is Balanced Literacy?"
• Describe what you have learned about balanced literacy. Pretend you will be presenting this workshop to brand new teachers from another country.
• You will be presenting at least ten slides, not including title and reference slides.
• On the last slide, include a list of sources in APA style.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Book: Rasinski, T. & Padak, N.D. (2013). From phonics to fluency: Effective teaching of decoding and reading fluency in the elementary school. NJ: Pearson.
Attachment:- Attachments.rar