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Download full textBaker, Thomas – English Teaching Forum, 2008
This article discusses whole language and phonics approaches to teaching L1 reading. It argues to bring these two perspectives together under an integrated approach to better teach second language reading. The article offers an integrated lesson plan with adaptable activities and techniques that show how to apply the integrated approach.
Descriptors: Reading Research, Lesson Plans, Whole Language Approach, Phonics
Moats, Louisa – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
In this practitioners' guide, a recognized reading expert explains how educators, parents, and concerned citizens can spot ineffective reading programs that may hide under the "scientifically-based" banner. Although the term "whole language" is not commonly used today, programs based on its premises remain popular. These…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Whole Language Approach
Ediger, Marlow – 1999
The controlled vocabulary method of reading instruction (popular in the 1950's and 60's in the Dick and Jane basic reading series) had many inherent and numerous strong points. As with all beginning reading instruction methods, including the Big Book, heterogeneous reading group, holism, phonics, library book, and constructivist methods,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMalik, Stephanie – Volta Review, 1996
Discusses a whole-language approach to teaching guided reading to deaf students. Each morning, a written letter, using vocabulary and syntax in accordance with students' reading ability, previews the day's events. With teacher guidance, students explore their reading skills in groups to encourage application of reading strategies in a natural…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Group Activities, Reading Instruction
Stasko, Mary I. – 1991
A practicum addressed the high percentage of students who were experiencing difficulty with reading comprehension and vocabulary retention in a fifth-grade Drop Out Prevention class by implementing a supplemental whole-language program. Subjects were 19 fifth-grade students. An informal reading inventory, an attitude survey, and academic grades…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Grade 5
Cooper, J. David – 1993
Reflecting dramatic changes in educators' understanding of literacy, this book, a revision of an earlier text published in 1986 under the title, "Improving Reading Comprehension," provides support for preservice and inservice teachers in learning to help children develop literacy effectively. The central feature of the book is a literacy program…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Klingborg, Beverly; Cardinalli, Antonina – 2001
This book is the second in a series of thematic units designed especially for children who are deaf and hard of hearing in kindergarten through the elementary grades. The unit focuses on sea creatures and is divided into seven sections. Five sections contain lessons on particular sea animals including whales, turtles, starfish, octopuses, and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedAu, Kathryn H. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1997
Discusses the whole literacy curriculum, which encompasses ownership, the writing process, reading comprehension, language and vocabulary knowledge, word reading and spelling strategies, voluntary reading. Outcomes of a five-year implementation effort in Hawaii indicate curriculum can improve literacy achievement of students of diverse…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Disabilities, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education
Templeton, Shane – 1991
Based on the premise that elementary students must be engaged in frequent reading, writing, and speaking throughout all areas of an integrated curriculum, this book is intended for a first course in language arts for preservice teachers. The book can also be used for courses in which reading and language arts theory and methods are combined. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Grammar
Au, Kathryn H.; And Others – 1995
This book shows elementary school teachers how to help students become confident readers and writers who can use skills they acquire throughout their lives, from a constructivist orientation. It is intended as a main text for an introductory course on elementary-school reading instruction, typically taken by undergraduates in their second or third…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Combs, Robin – 1992
A teacher used classics of children's literature to teach critical reading skills. Although scoring above the national average on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), the teacher's fourth-grade gifted students exhibited problems with critical reading skills. A literature unit involving whole language strategies and using Beverly Cleary's…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Gunning, Thomas G. – 1996
Helping teachers to discover approaches and techniques that fit their teaching style and their teaching situation, this book presents as fairly, completely, and clearly as possible the major approaches and techniques of reading instruction that research and practice have indicated to be successful. Based on the idea that the best reading programs…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Phonics
Martin, Beverly A. – 1990
This text was designed for adult students of English as a Second Language who are reading at approximately an intermediate level. Ten chapters address a variety of topics relating to daily life in the United States, including: travel and transportation; the nuclear and extended family; holiday traditions and customs; the education system; college…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Cultural Awareness
Riley, Margaret C.; Coe, Donna L. – 1992
For the K-3 teacher, this book presents hundreds of ready-to-use individual and group activities for developing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, all correlated with other curriculum areas and organized into nine monthly sections. The book includes teaching strategies, individual and group games, activity sheets, quizzes, writing…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary School Teachers
Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; Peck, Jacqueline K., Ed.; Church, Brenda Weible, Ed.; Fawcett, Gay, Ed.; Hendershot, Judith M., Ed.; Henry, Justina M., Ed.; Moss, Barbara G., Ed.; Pryor, Elizabeth, Ed.; Roskos, Kathleen A., Ed.; Baumann, James F., Ed.; Dillon, Deborah R., Ed.; Hopkins, Carol J., Ed.; Humphrey, Jack W., Ed.; O'Brien, David G., Ed. – 2000
Drawing from the popular "Distinguished Educator" series of articles in the journal "The Reading Teacher," this book presents 33 essays by respected scholars in nearly every field of reading research and instruction. In addition to the original articles, almost all featured educators have included a professional biography written especially for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Literacy, Reading Achievement
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