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Ciocci, Sandra R.; Morrell-Schumann, Marianne – Teaching English to Deaf and Second-Language Students, 1992
A private day school, Willie Ross School for the Deaf, designed a whole-language approach to reading appropriate for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. This article compares traditional and psycholinguistic approaches to reading, describes the early childhood classroom environment, and presents a lesson using folktales. An assessment checklist is…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Deafness, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods

Habgood, Mary Kay – International Journal of Social Education, 1993
Asserts that the whole-language approach requires broader evaluation procedures most often associated with alternative assessment methods. Discusses issues related to alternative assessment, such as goal setting, portfolios, and interrater reliability, as they apply to social studies. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Au, Kathryn H.; And Others – 1995
This book shows elementary school teachers how to help students become confident readers and writers who can use skills they acquire throughout their lives, from a constructivist orientation. It is intended as a main text for an introductory course on elementary-school reading instruction, typically taken by undergraduates in their second or third…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Dixon-Krauss, Lisbeth, Ed. – 1996
Designed to help teachers think about, analyze, and make decisions on literacy instruction, this book provides the conceptual framework and methodology to put the ideas of Lev Vygotsky into practice for classroom literacy instruction. The book claims that Vygotsky's ideas provide a cohesive framework and an operational model that teachers can use…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Anstrom, Kris; DiCerbo, Patricia, Ed. – 1998
This document examines the education of secondary level English language learners within mainstream language arts classes. It provides teachers and teacher educators with an understanding of how mainstream language arts instruction can be designed and implemented to enhance academic achievement for these students. Research for this report included…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Diversity (Student), English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty, Ed.; McKenna, Michael C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
This book presents state-of-the-science research on the components of successful literacy learning and how to target them in contemporary classrooms. The volume builds on and extends the work of Steven Stahl, whose pioneering contributions encompassed the key areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assessment.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Teaching Methods
Daise, Leslie – 1994
The whole language approach to reading instruction emphasizes a literature-based program rather than the traditional skills-related approach. The principles and practices of whole language have engendered both educational and political debate for the following reasons: whole language challenges the traditional educational power arrangement, giving…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style