Student Achievement Partners (SAP) released a report in which seven education professors reviewed
Units of Study for Teaching Reading K–5 and Units of Study for Teaching Phonics K–2 as a representative example of balanced literacy curricula overall. The report’s assertions have generated public interest and questions. The following executive summary outlines a longer response, providing context and key facts that put the report’s findings in perspective.
Click here to read TCRWP’s response, In Defense of Balanced Literacy: Understanding and Responding to Student Achievement Partners’ Critique of Units of Study.
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