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Kotaman, Huseyin; Tekin, Ali Kemal; Tekin, Gokce – Reading Improvement, 2007
In Turkey, the Ministry of National Education (MONE) changed the reading instruction method in elementary schools from whole language approach to phonics emphasis in 2005. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of phonics method on reading acquisition in a Turkish sample; to understand what elementary school teachers…
Descriptors: Phonics, Whole Language Approach, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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Kolstad, Rosemarie; Bardwell, Jill – Reading Improvement, 1997
States that many American children have difficulty learning to read (44% read below grade level). Explains the viewpoint of the phonics group and what those involved with whole language believe. Calls for dispassionate inquiry into how to raise reading levels, instead of the battle of the two methodologies as exists now. (PA)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Achievement
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Flickinger, Gayle Glidden; Long, Emily S. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Shares ways in which teachers who use a basal reading series can go beyond the manual and integrate the whole language approach into the language arts program. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
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Levande, David I. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Reports on what factors teachers say have influenced their beliefs and instructional practices concerning reading. Finds that both subskills-oriented and whole language teachers identified their classroom experiences as teachers as the single greatest influence on their beliefs about reading and reading instruction. (RS)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection