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Hanlin, Jayne Ilene – Learning, 1992
A fifth grade teacher describes how by reading classic literature aloud to her students each day, she helped them along the road to literature-based learning. She discusses the advantages of the whole-language approach. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classical Literature, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation
Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L. – Learning, 1991
Describes how primary teachers can use decoding strategies within a literature-based, whole-language setting. A three-stage approach involves the book stage (real reading), the word stage (learning words), and the letter-sound stage (learning sounds). The article provides sample activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Learning, 1991
This activity book uses the whole language approach to encourage young readers and prereaders to become critical listeners and viewers by comparing different versions of familiar fairy tales ("The Three Little Pigs" and "Beauty and the Beast"). Class activities, educational games, posters, and student activity pages are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Fairy Tales
