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

[Cynthia Greenleaf]

What I find really interesting about that footnote is the motivation for
the term compared to the pejorative use of it now by the uninformed.
Wouldn't it be great to show up at the full frontal fonicx fora to say,
"Actually, balanced reading instruction was a term adopted at the 1989 ..."


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On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 11:18 AM P David Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> 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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