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Weir, Beth – Reading Horizons, 1990
Draws a parallel between the experience of learning to read and write in a first and a second language. Notes that the experience of learning through an approach that permits talking, reading, and writing freely is satisfying whereas the experience with a text-based approach to learning is much less satisfactory. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Personal Narratives, Second Language Learning

Hatch, J. Amos – Reading Improvement, 1993
Describes the ways key issues in whole-language implementation were handled in Tennessee's pilot program. Offers a framework for encouraging teachers to look closely at the advantages of whole language without squeezing them between a rock and a hard place. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Program Descriptions
McCoy, Linda Jones – 1993
Noting that teachers have expressed a need for more information on how they can incorporate whole language into their classrooms, this paper describes ways of combining whole language techniques in a program that continues to use the basal reader. The paper first offers a brief view of the basic steps often used to incorporate predictable books…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1

Brown, Karen K.; And Others – New Advocate, 1996
Shows how two teacher educators and two teachers, combining their energies, worked through the difficult transition from basal readers to literature-based curriculums. Contains specific sections in which the elementary school teachers talk about their experience. (TB)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Classroom Research, Cooperation

Siera, Maureen; Combs, Martha – Reading Horizons, 1990
Shares experiences of two first grade teachers who were beginning to make a transition from basal reading to a more holistic approach. Suggests that, although teachers are in transition from basals to more holistic approaches, some incompatible and contradictory elements will exist. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1

Usova, Constance J.; Usova, George M. – Reading Improvement, 1993
Describes an intensive integrated art and language arts instructional program for first-grade at-risk children. Notes that a combination of whole language, language experience, and basal reading approaches. Finds a marked improvement in reading, writing ability, and language ability. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Basal Reading, Grade 1, High Risk Students

Rowe, Barbara Anne – Policy Review, 1990
Describes the successful use of the beginning reading program called Sing, Spell, Read, and Write (SSRW) in Aberdeen (Mississippi) elementary schools. Using a whole language rather than basal reading approach and emphasizing phonics and total immersion, SSRW has been instrumental in dramatically improving achievement test scores and in combating…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 3

Osmus, Kyra J. – Thresholds in Education, 1993
The whole-language approach to reading interrelates different language arts and uses children's experience as the basis for reading materials. The Success Language Arts program promotes growth of knowledge in various academic disciplines while developing students' reading and writing abilities. The program eliminates basal readers and allows…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Democratic Values, Elementary Education, Higher Education

Mills, Heidi; Clyde, Jean Anne – Young Children, 1991
Discusses the effects of teachers' beliefs and practices on teachers' perceptions of students' abilities and potential for success. Uses the example of a child referred from a traditional kindergarten, where he did poorly, to a whole language child development center, where he excelled. Urges teachers to examine the impact of their beliefs on…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Grade 1
Lare, Douglas – Schools in the Middle, 1993
A group of reading teachers at a Pennsylvania middle school was charged with developing a uniform reading program and selecting reading materials to meet their students' needs. This article describes the committee's work, focusing on the selection and adaption of a whole-language basal-reading program that incorporates writing and other language…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Basal Reading, Grade 5, Grade 6