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The Australian Curriculum And The Balanced Approach To Teach Reading

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Reading is a purposeful and complex mental act, with the goal to construct meaning. For an individual to participate fully in society they need to be a successful reader over a broad range of text such as spoken, written, digital, audio and visual. There are three positions regarding the method of instruction to teach reading, which will be discussed in this essay; the ‘bottom up’ approach, the ‘top down’ approach and the ‘balanced’ approach. The Australian Curriculum embraces the position of a balanced approach to reading as it is generally accepted that the balanced approach presents students with the greatest prospect to obtain the skills needed for effective reading (Winch et al., 2014). A balanced approach to teach reading involves an
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