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a method of teaching reading in which phonics and whole language approaches are both used to maximize student learning.

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Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
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Supporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.
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In 2011, all three countries reported less than 50 percent literacy in their adult population.
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Guinea, with 25 percent, recorded the lowest adult literacy rate in the world at that time.
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That means Japanese whiskies are beautifully balanced and elegant; they touch and develop on every sensor on the palate.
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In any social movement, then, change and alteration in a new direction must be balanced against the demands of social stability.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
But the balanced forces once displaced would be seen constantly to come to an equilibrium at a new point.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The introduction of the balanced Swell pedal (Walcker, 1863) has greatly increased the tonal resources of the organ.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
These contrivances are applicable only to such organs as have the balanced swell pedal.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Perhaps they thought them so nearly divided, and so almost evenly balanced, that the one neutralised the other.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow