Over the past few years, there seems to be a much-heated debate and quite the divide over how we should be teaching reading in the classroom. In fact, the conversations have become so polarizing that one feels as if we must wholeheartedly, “choose a side.”

While the world adapts to new norms and behaviors for daily life, we as educators must rethink and adapt our approach to literacy instruction in the virtual “classroom.”

As classroom teachers, we sometimes approach our teaching in a compartmentalized way.

Who wouldn’t when it’s the daily schedule that seems to dictate and inform what we do rather than the students in front of us?