[Reading-hall-of-fame] EXT: Balanced Literacy

[P David Pearson]

I did find this obscure footnote on p 246 of MY OWN article on The Reading
Wars from 2004:

In 1989, a special interest group with the apocryphal label of Balanced
Reading Instruction was organized at the International Reading Association.
The group was started to counteract what they considered the unchecked
acceptance of whole language as the approach to use with any and all
students and to send the alternate message that there is no necessary
conflict between authentic activity (usually considered the province of
whole language) and explicit instruction of skills and strategies (usually
considered the province of  curriculum-centered approaches). For elaborate
accounts of balanced literacy instruction, see McIntyre and Pressley
(1996); Gambrell, Morrow, Newman, and Pressley (1999); and Pearson (1996)


How soon we forget, even our own work.


David



On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:01 PM Rasinski, Timothy <trasinsk at kent.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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*"If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of
tomorrow." John Dewey, 1903*

*“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stanislaw Jerzy
Lec*
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P. David Pearson
Evelyn Lois Corey *Emeritus* Professor of Instructional Science
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

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