Presents five grouping patterns for whole-language classrooms, intended to provide children with flexibility and complement other approaches to organizing instruction: shared reading, sharing meetings, literature circles, skill groups, and strategy groups. (SR)

Offers five suggestions which may be helpful to educators in responding proactively to criticisms of literacy-learning practices, as they work cooperatively with parents, Boards of Education, tutors, and other key players in reinforcing the perspective that literacy learning is genuinely valued and is connected to meaningful contexts during daily…

Offers suggestions for administrators when they observe content area classrooms with a whole language thrust. Discusses instructional goals, sharing the learning-teaching process, classroom organization, classroom library, writing, and importance of meaning. (SR)