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Clewell, Suzanne F., Ed.; Wagoner, Shirley A., Ed. – 1990
Intended for reading professionals, this yearbook contains 13 articles dealing with reading and allied fields divided into 2 sections: "Issues" and "Practices." The following articles focus on issues: "Wish Fulfillment and Other Dangers in Reading" (Joan Develin Coley); "Emergent Reading Research: Synthesis and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedWhitaker, Nancy – Music Educators Journal, 1994
Maintains that the whole-language approach to reading and writing presents another challenge to music teachers who are asked to create complementary instruction as part of an integrated curriculum. Discusses three commonly agreed-on characteristics and areas of disagreement among those who advocate the whole-language approach. (CFR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bertrand, John E., Ed.; Stice, Carole F., Ed. – 1995
Many young students are not finishing high school and even fewer are entering college. This book demonstrates how some teachers have created classrooms that work for children at risk. They use an integrated, inquiry-driven curriculum to create holistic, language- and literature-based classrooms. Chapter 1 describes the nature of being at risk for…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Download full textNew Educational Projects, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1992
This document consists of a guide for teachers and tutors and four "readers" for adults. These readers are intended to eliminate the problems associated with book-centered, one-to-one tutoring, such as the following: (1) uninteresting, irrelevant materials focusing on single reading skills rather than reading as communication; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books
Partridge, M. Elizabeth; And Others – 1991
This quasi-experimental study measured the effects of daily opportunities to draw and write on kindergarten children's ability to represent phonemes in their spelling inventions. All students involved in the study had previously been tested using the Gesell School Readiness Screening Test and placed in developmentally appropriate kindergarten…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy, Free Writing, Freehand Drawing
Peer reviewedDesjean-Perrotta, Blanche – Young Children, 1996
Discusses how the whole-language process provides an authentic approach to lifelong learning. Includes discussions of Cambourne's conditions for learning; Holdaway's natural learning model; Goodman's miscue analysis research; whole-language theory; the role of teachers, students, and the community in language arts; and the role of the classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Hobson, Eric; Shuman, R. Baird – 1990
Arguing that students should be encouraged frequently to listen, to speak, to read, and to write in all areas of the curriculum and to begin asking the questions that reveal the dependence that exists between various bodies of knowledge, this book is based on the whole-language theory. The book is designed not only to help students learn such…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, High Schools
