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This excerpt provides a guide to getting started using the Simply Stations series online.

Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt from Comprehension. In this section, the authors discuss the importance of developing constrained foundational skills including phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, and phonics.

In this excerpt, Debbie Diller explains timeless writing standard 1, which focuses on generating ideas and choosing a topic. 

This poem, titled 'Labels', was written by Jiovanni Gutierrez Montano, a student at Health Sciences High & Middle College. It is found in the introduction of Removing Labels.

In the Introduction, the authors open this book by sharing our personal stories—how we have come to this work individually and together.

This excerpt explains why it is important to create a responsive plan for learning. 

This excerpt stresses the importance of teaching students how to—independently, and with peers—assess and set goals.

Students learn to read and write best when their teachers balance literacy instruction. But how do you strike the right balance of skills and knowledge, reading and writing, small and whole group instruction, and direct and dialogic instruction, so that all students can learn to their maximum potential? Watch this video with Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nancy Akhavan, authors of This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, as they answer the question: What is balanced literacy? 

Tiffanee Brown, co-author of Concept-Based Literacy Lessons, writes in this blog how, in a Concept-Based Literacy classroom, teaching skills is not the end goal in and of itself. Rather, the skills are taught to exemplify a bigger idea or Understanding about important literacy processes.

What factors come to mind when you hear the term “Balanced Literacy?” It is a term that has been used (and misused) for so long that it has lost meaning. Join the authors of This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6, for as they outline the essential evidence-based approaches that define the balance for your students, lighting the path for you to implement true balanced literacy in your classroom.

Douglas Fisher, co-author of This Is Balanced Literacy, explains how the term "balanced literacy" today is used to describe instructional arrangements. A simple Internet search for “balanced literacy” will result in a wide range of graphics that indicate that whole class and small group instruction must be in balance. But that’s not where the term originally comes from.

"Balanced literacy is more than grouping students. But grouping for instruction is important and, sadly, neglected." Read more from Nancy Frey, co-author of This Is Balanced Literacy, on Corwin Connect.