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Peer reviewedSmith, John A. – Educational Leadership, 1998
An elementary education professor taught first grade for a year and developed a balanced program for beginning readers that blended instructional methods from skills-based and holistic perspectives. The program consisted of five complementary parts: teacher read-alouds, sustained silent reading, decoding instruction, shared reading, and writing…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Holistic Approach, Literacy Education
