Dear Balanced Literacy Teacher
by Missy Purcell Dear Balanced Literacy Teacher, I will never forget taking my current 6th grader to his first day of kindergarten. He was wide-eyed and full of wonder. As the 3rd child, he couldn’t wait for his day to join his older brothers at our local elementary school and do all the things they had done! The one thing he was most excited about was learning to read. Our home was filled with books, and he spent countless hours in his preschool years pretending to read alon