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Deborah Vriend Van Duinen; Erica R. Hamilton – Teachers College Press, 2024
Drawing on an asset-based approach to adolescents and their literacy practices, this book is a powerful resource for secondary teachers across all content areas. The authors encourage a "widened lens" approach that considers varied perspectives and research findings when engaging in multiple and often competing initiatives, issues, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Multiple Literacies, Literacy
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Goodman, Yetta M. – English Journal, 2011
The author's career in professional education is intertwined with the history of language arts education in the United States and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The author joined NCTE in the 1960s, though she was already teaching for about 10 years with a well-developed constructivist perspective on teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Literacy Education, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods
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Graham, Linda J.; Grieshaber, Susan – Disability & Society, 2008
The dichotomisation of literacy instruction into phonics instruction versus a whole language approach fails to realise a fundamental tenet of providing equitable educational opportunities to diverse groups of children. Diversity becomes a problem to solve through "inoculation programmes" or "special" education expertise.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education, Phonics, Whole Language Approach
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Stauffer, Mary – International Journal of Special Education, 2008
This article describes an unconventional method to teach un-contracted braille reading and writing skills to students who are blind and have additional disabilities. It includes a keyboarding curriculum that focuses on the whole language approach to literacy. A special feature is the keyboard that is adapted with braille symbols. Un-contracted…
Descriptors: Braille, Whole Language Approach, Functional Literacy, Writing Skills
Crux, Sandra C. – Education Canada, 1991
Presents the Holistic Educational Literacy Process strategy for adult literacy education consisting of the following 10 steps: presenting an advance organizer; reading silently; reading aloud; listening to the passage recorded; listening and taking notes; highlighting important points; networking structures; summarizing the passage; revising the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Learning Strategies
Lundstrom, Meg – Instructor, 2000
Presents the story of one award-winning elementary school which shows that effective reading instruction demands a fine sense of balance. The school uses both phonics and whole language in order to teach to all children's needs. It also incorporates a balance of other techniques. After 3 years, the school's standards-based reading program is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Education, Excellence in Education, Literacy Education
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Sawyer, Diane J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
This paper discusses the history of U.S. reading instruction; instructional approaches and learning processes; the whole language view of literacy acquisition; promoting literate behavior through reading to or writing with children, shared reading, and guiding children's reading/writing; and use of the whole language approach with…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Literacy Education
Carr, Kathryn S. – 1990
The personnel director of a local industry requested reading help from Central Missouri State University for several employees. After several meetings, a workplace literacy program that used the whole language approach supplemented by direct instruction in word recognition skills was developed. Two types of tests were written. One, a vocabulary…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship
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Wendon, Lyn – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Describes LETTERLAND, a unique teaching model that blends a structured phonics approach with whole-language teaching and is widely used in British classrooms as an initial approach to literacy as well as in special needs contexts. (HTH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Crandall, JoAnn; Pharness, Gary – 1991
After an introduction to the use of the whole language approach in adult literacy instruction, this paper describes some techniques or activities used in two adult literacy programs in Vancouver with participants who speak English as a first and as a second language. The Municipal Workplace Literacy Program, operated by the City of Vancouver…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Schleper, David R. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
A teacher at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind recounts his experience implementing a whole-language approach with an elementary class of students with hearing impairments. The effort, focusing on insects, utilized dialog journals, word banks, shared reading, guided reading and writing, independent reading, and theme activities. A…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Methods, Elementary Education, Entomology
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Quintero, Elizabeth; Huerta-Macias, Ana – School Community Journal, 1993
Project FIEL, Family Initiative for English Literacy, was designed to provide participatory literacy and biliteracy development opportunities for (Hispanic-American) families in El Paso. This article discusses program goals; theoretical perspectives; project design rationale; population characteristics; curriculum development, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Hispanic Americans
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Westby, Carol E.; Costlow, Linda – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
A program for language learning-disabled students is described that uses a whole language philosophy to structure contexts that develop students' pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, graphophonemic, and metacognitive abilities underlying speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This paper describes the program environment, children, thematic…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Handicaps, Listening Skills, Literacy Education
Pomerance, Anita – 1991
A workshop for adult literacy tutors and learners was developed on the basis of the findings of a telephone survey of 45 tutors and presented to a total of 51 tutors and 48 students. The workshop, which was based on an experiential whole-language approach, was structured in a series of three 2-hour sessions. During the first session, tutors and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Experiential Learning
Hutchings, Meredith – 1986
The argument is advanced that many literacy materials, such as basal readers and workbooks, do not allow literacy students to learn to read and write in the daily context in which the skills will be used, and an alternative is described. The limitations of phonics-based materials and the resulting controlled vocabulary of readers and workbooks…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
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