Designed to offer a balanced instructional approach for language arts, this book combines a systematic phonics program with whole language. It teaches reading skills by using the children's own language, basal readers, poems, and songs, and by emphasizing writing, spelling, listening, and speaking skills. The book includes daily lesson plans,…

Suggesting that teachers must develop a philosophy of language arts instruction to guide their teaching, this book provides teachers in language arts or combined language arts and reading courses with the knowledge base and practical ideas they need to plan and implement a literature-based language arts program in which children are actively…

The materials collected in this document were submitted to a conference focused on issues relevant to Chapter 1 programs. A wide variety of resources was presented to participants. Resources for teachers related to mathematics cover the topics of teaching reform; curriculum and instruction; problem solving; and estimation. Resources on reading…