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Swain, Sherry Seale – PTA Today, 1992
This article describes the process approach to writing instruction, examining the literature-based approach to reading and the whole-language learning approach. In whole-language classrooms, reading, writing, listening, and thinking are interwoven. The article offers ways for parents to support such approaches at home and school. (SM)
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Family Involvement, Literacy
Fearn, Gloria Wilber – 1993
Noting the fragile relationship between parent participation and school reform, this book tells the story of the Charquin Program, an alternative public school program in Hayward, California, dedicated to parent participation and notable for its open classroom structure and intensely democratic practice. The introduction relates the history and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Mixed Age Grouping, Nongraded Instructional Grouping