[Reading-hall-of-fame] Balanced Literacy

[Kris Gutierrez]

David, I recall you writing about the “radical middle,”  which I used;  I don’t recall your writing on  balanced literacy.  
Kris Gutiérrez
Carol Liu Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean
Berkeley School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley, Ca 94720-1670
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Member, National Academy of Education
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 






> On Jun 22, 2023, at 5:57 PM, P David Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> Fact-checking my own recollections of history.
> 
> 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.
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> 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).  
> 
> And then I recall a 1996 book by 
> E. McIntyre & M. Pressley, Balanced Instruction:  Strategies and skills in whole language. Boston MA:  Christopher-Gordon.
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> 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.
> 
> David
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