Submitted by EdSourceToday t3_1197rql in IAmA
California and the rest of the nation is facing a literacy crisis in which children across the country are struggling to learn to read at grade level by third grade.
Here at EdSource, California's largest nonprofit newsroom specifically focused on education journalism, we spent the past year chronicling California's Reading Dilemma and the national debate over how to teach reading.
We recently held a roundtable discussion on what parents and teachers can do to help their children and students learn how to read by third grade.
EdSource journalists John Fensterwald and Karen D'Souza are here to answer your questions about the philosophical tug-of-war between teaching philosophies and the role teachers and parents can play in helping kids to learn how to read.
Proof: Here's my proof!
CA_education_nut t1_j9kwvrt wrote
Can you explain the difference between "balanced literacy" and the "science of reading"?