The Four-Blocks® Framework incorporates on a daily basis four different approaches to teaching children to read - Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, Writing, and Working with Words. Click on each block below for more information.

Started in 1989 there has been resurgence recently of this balanced approach to reading/writing/language arts!

Building Blocks™ In kindergarten classrooms teachers can provie a variety of reading and writing experiences from which all children develop six critical understandings, which are the "building blocks" of their success. Click here to learn more!