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Preston, Teresa – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Reading instruction has been the subject of significant controversy for more than five decades, and Kappan has allowed advocates of many different types of reading instruction to make their cases in the magazine's pages. Teresa Preston chronicles the history of the reading wars as they played out in Kappan. Researchers and scholars have debated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phonics, Reading Strategies, Whole Language Approach
Gentry, J. Richard; Ouellette, Gene P. – Stenhouse Publishers, 2019
With the concise and readable "Brain Words," you will learn how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage. Introducing their original, research-based framework of "brain words"--dictionaries in the brain where students store and…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Class Activities, Thinking Skills
Cowden, Peter A. – College Student Journal, 2010
The ability to learn is an important life skill. It is a critical skill for participation in all aspects of life, including school, work, and the community. It is a major key to accessing knowledge, gaining independence, and exercising life choices. Many people believe that individuals with moderate disabilities cannot learn how to read. They…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Disabilities, Phonemic Awareness, Reading Skills
Graham, Linda J.; Grieshaber, Susan – Disability & Society, 2008
The dichotomisation of literacy instruction into phonics instruction versus a whole language approach fails to realise a fundamental tenet of providing equitable educational opportunities to diverse groups of children. Diversity becomes a problem to solve through "inoculation programmes" or "special" education expertise.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education, Phonics, Whole Language Approach
Baker, Thomas – English Teaching Forum, 2008
This article discusses whole language and phonics approaches to teaching L1 reading. It argues to bring these two perspectives together under an integrated approach to better teach second language reading. The article offers an integrated lesson plan with adaptable activities and techniques that show how to apply the integrated approach.
Descriptors: Reading Research, Lesson Plans, Whole Language Approach, Phonics
Taylor, John – 1997
Whole language versus phonics: the debate rages on over the proper techniques for teaching reading. Whole language is a child-centered, literature based approach to language teaching that will immerse the students in real communication. The reasons placed behind whole language teaching are based on linguistics, pedagogy, and psychology. In the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Willows, Dale – School Administrator, 2002
Describes professional development program in Ontario school district to improve student reading and writing skills. Program used food-pyramid concepts to help teacher learn to provide a balanced and flexible approach to literacy instruction based on student needs. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Professional Development, Reading Instruction

Rycik, Jim – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1997
Suggests that many educators are finding common ground and common sense under the banner of "Balanced Literacy." Discusses the term, the search for balance, and the difficulty in maintaining a balanced literacy program. (RS)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Literacy, Phonics
Fisher, Bobbi – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
A primary-grade teacher describes how she uses singing to teach phonics in her classroom. Notes how children are helped to integrate the three cuing systems of language--semantic, syntactic, and graphophonemic--as they read and sing together. (ET)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Phonics, Primary Education, Reading Instruction

Feathers, Karen M.; Peterson, Michael; Beloin, Kim – Talking Points, 1999
Describes two schools that were moved into inclusive practices. Notes that in the first school, about half of the teachers considered themselves whole language teachers prior to the inclusion project, while in the second school, both whole language and inclusion were new to the teachers. Discusses the features of change in these schools. (SG)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Inclusive Schools, Phonics

Feathers, Karen M.; Peterson, Michael; Beloin, Kim – Talking Points, 1999
Serves as a follow up to "Moving toward Inclusive Education: Two Stories" which appeared in the last issue of this journal. Demonstrates, in chart form, the commonalities between inclusive education and whole language. Includes a bibliography of readings in inclusive education and whole language. (SG)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Inclusive Schools, Phonics

Morgan, Kenneth B. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1995
This article describes a teacher-created instructional phonics program that shares philosophical underpinnings of the whole-language movement which is not always adequate in helping at-risk beginning readers. In this program, phonics is taught directly in a way that is natural, authentic, interesting, meaningful, and fun for children. (JDD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, High Risk Students, Phonics, Primary Education

Freyd, Pamela, Lytle, James H. – Educational Leadership, 1990
Examines IBM's Writing to Read (WTR) program for kindergartners and first graders from four perspectives: its language learning paradigm, the computer program design, the research conducted on its effectiveness, and implementation considerations. Since costs outweigh learning benefits, educators should reconsider purchasing this program. Includes…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Grade 1

Worthy, Jo; Hoffman, James V. – Reading Teacher, 1998
Offers responses from four readers of this journal, all reading and/or classroom teachers, to a question posed by another teacher: whether children who have had limited literacy experiences should start reading in whole-language readers and/or trade books or whether they should start in controlled-vocabulary preprimers. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics

Korkeamaki, Riitta-Liisa; Dreher, Mariam Jean – Language Arts, 1993
Reviews the typical approach (synthetic phonics) to teaching reading in Finland. Suggests that teachers in English-speaking countries can learn from problems Finnish teachers face and vice versa. Finds that, despite a highly regular writing system, Finnish teachers find that a heavy phonics emphasis does not solve their reading instruction…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Finnish, Foreign Countries
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