Despite the curriculum’s aim “to prepare students for any reading and writing task they will face and to turn kids into ...

When the celebrated Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker shared an article about Calkins on X, he bemoaned “the ...

In the raging debate over how U.S. schools teach children to read, few figures have been as controversial yet lionized as Lucy Calkins, the literacy guru and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go. One and gone don’t rhyme either. And why are to, too, and two all ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now ...

And though the suit settled in 2021, the district’s method of teaching reading, a balanced literacy curriculum developed by Columbia University Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins called Units of ...

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