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Download full textWGBH-TV, Boston, MA. – 2001
"Between the Lions" is an award-winning PBS television series based on a comprehensive literacy curriculum that combines phonics and whole language. This guide has been created to help first grade teachers use "Between the Lions" in their classrooms to enhance their reading lessons. The guide is filled with engaging activities,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Curriculum Enrichment, Grade 1, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedLamb, G. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
This article describes the whole-language philosophy of teaching reading and writing and its application to teaching braille reading to blind children. It suggests activities that are effective for enhancing the development of early reading behaviors in children who use braille and that integrate the critical components of literacy learning with…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Blindness, Braille, Elementary Education
Dougherty, Mildred; And Others – 1989
Nursery rhymes and written phonics used in a meaningful context are valuable teaching methods which can be applied in a whole language classroom or in conjunction with a basal reading program. Because nursery rhymes are rooted in oral tradition they lend themselves to oral presentation. They provide forms for the oral beginnings of the best of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading)
McCarthy, William G., Ed.; And Others – 1989
The purpose of this booklet is to disseminate theoretical ideas and practical strategies concerning whole language so that learning for children and practice for teaching may be enlightened and improved. Chapters include: "Whole Language Learning" (William McCarthy and Alicia Sutton); "Planning the Program and Organizing the Classroom" (Marilyn…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Brand, Wendy – 1991
This practicum was designed to allow first graders the opportunity to read and write in a more natural and authentic manner than that permitted by using the basal reading series as the basis for reading instruction. The first grade reading program was transformed from a basal-oriented approach to a whole language approach. Through the use of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Activities
Kerr, Hugo – 1995
This book examines the basic principles of the cognitive psychology of literacy and explains how insights gained from that theory can inform and improve reading, spelling, and writing instruction aimed at adults. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's eight chapters: the principles of cognitive psychology (the nervous system,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Andragogy
