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Using What You Know to Figure Out What You Don't Know: An Analogy Approach to Decoding.
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Gaskins, Robert W.; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1992
Discusses development and implementation of an approach to decoding in which students use words they know to decode those they do not know. Discusses how an analogy approach was implemented in a tutorial setting. Offers guidelines for how the approach can be used in regular classrooms, including whole language classrooms. (RS)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Prior Learning
Revaluing the Bilingual Learner through a Literature Reading Program.
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Freeman, Yvonne S.; Goodman, Yetta M. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Presents alternatives to three misconceptions about bilingual learners to promote the revaluing of these students. Describes traditional views of literacy instruction for second-language learners and suggests a whole-language literature program as an alternative. Lays out differences between inauthentic, controlled literature-based reading…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Labeling (of Persons), Limited English Speaking
Using Whole Language with Children We Have Failed to Teach to Read.
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Thomas, Karen F.; Barksdale-Ladd, Mary Alice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Outlines the potential for using whole language for remediation of reading disabilities. Criticizes current approaches to remediation. Discusses six principles of whole language instruction that are effective for remediation. Describes four whole-language programs that have successfully remediated students. Suggests alternative assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Understanding the Nature of Reading and Writing Difficulties: An Alternative View.
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Freppon, Penny A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents a case study of a nine-year-old boy's reading and writing difficulties. Notes that instruction grounded in sociopsycholinguistics, whole language, and emergent literacy helped the learner overcome his difficulties. Provides an account of alternative approaches in assessing written language difficulties; and the role of the reader's belief…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy