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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I would add the 1996 book <i>Teaching Our Children To Read: The Role of Skills in a Comprehensive Reading Program </i>by Bill Honig, with the first chapter title: The Case for a Balanced Approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Doug</span><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:30.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:30.0pt;color:black'>Reading-hall-of-fame <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of "P. David Pearson" <ppearson@berkeley.edu><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 5:57 PM<br><b>To: </b>reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br><b>Subject: </b>[Reading-hall-of-fame] Balanced Literacy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>Fact-checking my own recollections of history.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>I was surprised to learn from the Daily in the NYT a couple of weeks ago that Lucy Calkins was the founder of balanced literacy. I imagine she was also surprised to learn that. And I know that our RHF colleague, Gay Su Pinnell, has sometimes received the same attribution. So I am trying to recall when I first became aware of the common use of balanced literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>I am a little vague on this, but I do remember that in the early 90s version of the reading wars, which sometimes featured tensions between colleagues affiliated with the Whole Language Umbrella and those aligned with the findings of Marilyn Adams' Beginning to Read volume, there were some researchers and teacher educators and many state and district leader who began searching for a middle ground. And I vaguely recall that some even banded together to ask IRA to authorize the establishment of something like a Balanced Literacy SIG (special interest group). <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>And then I recall a 1996 book by <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.25in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>E. McIntyre & M. Pressley,<span class=gmail-apple-converted-space> </span><i>Balanced Instruction: <span class=gmail-apple-converted-space> </span>Strategies and skills in whole language</i>. Boston MA: <span class=gmail-apple-converted-space> </span>Christopher-Gordon.</span><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"New York",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>Can others add to the story of who was involved--and how-- in coining Balanced Literacy? And I bet there are uses of the term as far back as Horace Mann.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailsignatureprefix><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>-- </span></span><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;font-size-adjust:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow." John Dewey, 1903</span></i></b><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;font-stretch:normal;font-size-adjust:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec</span></i></b><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>P. David Pearson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Evelyn Lois Corey <b>Emeritus</b> Professor of Instructional Science<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Graduate School of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>University of California, Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>email: <a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>other e-mail: <a href="mailto:pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>website for publications</span></u><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>: <a href="http://www.pdavidpearson.org" target="_blank">www.pdavidpearson.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>*******************<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#674EA7'>Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses</span></b><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>110 41st Street, Apt 401<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Oakland CA 94611-5237<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>iPhone: 510 543 6508<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>****************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><pre><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:30.0pt'>and may contain confidential information. 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