What is Comprehensive Balanced Literacy?
Is it just another approach that will fade out and be replaced by something else when research dictates it? Comprehensive Balanced Literacy is an inclusive framework of research-based practices, that work! It is constantly growing, adjusting, and tweaking as research presents evidence indicating that aspects should be added or deleted from the framework. Thus, it is not something that will be replaced, just enhanced over time. It encompasses all good literacy-teaching practices that provide the way to improve student learning and growth. In Jordan School District, we define the Comprehensive Balanced Literacy framework as incorporating modeling and guidance with the gradual release of responsibility, providing experiences in reading TO, WITH, and BY as well as writing TO, WITH, and BY students, every day, using research-based practices. Comprehensive Balanced Literacy includes and encompasses the following: whole group instruction, small group instruction, flexible grouping guided read
