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LaSasso, Carol J.; Mobley, Robert T. – Volta Review, 1997
A survey of 267 instructional programs for children with hearing impairments found that schools continue to use basal readers and the language experience program extensively with students with hearing impairments; however, almost four of every five programs report that they use a whole-language orientation to reading instruction. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Design
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Bruneau, Beverly J. – Teaching Education, 1992
This study describes curricular change from a skills-based, basal reader approach to a whole-language approach to reading instruction from the perspective of a second grade teacher engaged in self-initiated curricular development. A significant concern that emerged was modifying class routine and organization to reflect a different instructional…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Patterson, Frances R. A. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
Analyzes five cases related to challenges to public school textbooks. Five different U.S. Courts of Appeal have considered the objections of parents to textbooks, and all five found for the defendant school districts. Reveals that what began as a grassroots parental movement evolved into a nationwide crusade that has embroiled communities. (129…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Conservatism, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
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Osmus, Kyra J. – Thresholds in Education, 1993
The whole-language approach to reading interrelates different language arts and uses children's experience as the basis for reading materials. The Success Language Arts program promotes growth of knowledge in various academic disciplines while developing students' reading and writing abilities. The program eliminates basal readers and allows…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Democratic Values, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Reyhner, Jon – 2001
This digest summarizes ways to help young American Indian and Alaska Native children become fluent readers. There are numerous reading intervention programs, each with its own set of claims and counter-claims. Phonics approaches are designed for standard English speakers, and students with limited English abilities end up parroting what they read…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Basal Reading, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Education
Nadler, Diane Leboe – 1989
A literature based reading program was developed to improve reading comprehension skills of 14 students in a Chapter 1 pre-first grade class. Instead of using a basal reader for instruction, the students were exposed to trade or literature books, The reading strategies that were pre- and posttested were recognition of a sight vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, High Risk Students, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Sebesta, Sam – 1990
The wealth of information gleaned from reading research both past and present needs to be applied to a practical eclectic reading methodology. First, an emergent instruction model needs to be created that takes into account the immediate interests and needs of the learner. This model should recognize that learning is a transaction, with the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature