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<div dir="ltr">May be mistaken but I recall Jim and Pat Cunningham taking up the call for balanced reading instruction- defining it as a comprehensive approach to the teaching of reading. </div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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). </div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">And then I recall a 1996 book by </div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">E. McIntyre & M. Pressley,<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Balanced Instruction: <span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Strategies and skills in whole language</i>.
Boston MA: <span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Christopher-Gordon.</span></p>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div>
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