Whole Language and Its Potential for Developing Readers.

Weaver, Constance

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Publication Date: 1991

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Whole Language and Its Potential for Developing Readers.

Weaver, Constance

Topics in Language Disorders, v11 n3 p28-44 May 1991

This paper discusses major principles characterizing the whole language philosophy of teaching and learning; assumptions of the mechanistic and relational paradigms; whole language practices such as the Shared Book Experience and Reading Recovery for helping students with reading difficulties; and the potential of whole language for developing readers, writers, and learners. (JDD)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Principles, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Student Development, Teaching Methods, Whole Language Approach

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Language: English

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