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What Works for Balanced Literacy?
Margaret Hoover: balanced literacy gives teachers a structure of their time during the day. But when we're talking about kids who don't yet know how to read and write, she says, it isn't effective. Hoover: There's not enough attention to a really clear, systematic, explicit scope and sequence for phonics with opportunities to practice. "We should know exactly what are the two words that are covered in three grade program"