Sentence examples for literacy approach from inspiring English sources

At P.S. 30, for instance, teachers already used a balanced literacy approach.

The new math program, Everyday Mathematics, would emphasize understanding concepts rather than mastery of basic operations, and a "balanced literacy" approach to reading and writing would focus more on children working among themselves than on direct instruction.

He said that recent national testing data showed that New York, Boston and San Diego -- cities that use a so-called balanced literacy approach -- were making better progress than cities using programs preferred by Washington as "scientifically proven".

Ms. Lam said she would push a "balanced literacy" approach to reading instruction, incorporating components of the whole language approach (teaching children to read through immersion in good books) and basic phonics instruction (drilling children in sounding out letters and words).

Mr. Klein and other city education officials insisted that the Trophies program was very closely aligned with a balanced literacy approach, using real children's literature for reading material and many similar teaching techniques as well as employing classroom libraries along with more traditional books known as basal readers.

Under the balanced literacy approach, which was used by seven of the comparison schools and remains the most popular method of teaching reading in the city's schools, children are encouraged to develop a love of reading by choosing books that are of interest to them.

Our students learn research-validated instructional practices, balanced literacy approaches and a variety of lesson-plan formats to guide the teaching and learning process.

To combat the town's education problems Rotherham council submitted a proposal to study the effect of creative literacy approaches on Sats results at the end of primary school.

Sleeter's (2011) synthesis reported that literacy approaches that challenge the operation of coercive relations of power in the wider society produce positive outcomes for students from socially marginalised communities.

Moreover, different countries have different health systems and this may impact the implementation of mental health literacy approaches.

Unfortunately, prior to the results reported herein, most school-based mental health literacy approaches have not demonstrated robust or sustained outcomes in knowledge and attitudes in students [ 32].