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Gentry, J. Richard; Ouellette, Gene P. – Stenhouse Publishers, 2019
With the concise and readable "Brain Words," you will learn how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage. Introducing their original, research-based framework of "brain words"--dictionaries in the brain where students store and…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Class Activities, Thinking Skills
Ling, Pan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Based on a diagnosis of the problems in the traditional way of teaching English reading in China, this paper introduces the "whole language" theory and explores its application to the teaching of English reading. To begin with, it demonstrates the various problems in the teaching of English reading which severely prevent the improvement…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)

Bembridge, Teri – Educational Leadership, 1992
When commercially available tests failed to match their whole-language instructional practices, resource teachers in a Canadian school district developed their own instrument. Assembled over a five-year period, the Multi-Layered Assessment Package (MAP) is a set of procedures accompanied by suggested books, transcripts, and retelling and recording…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Reading Tests

Hatch, J. Amos – Reading Improvement, 1993
Describes the ways key issues in whole-language implementation were handled in Tennessee's pilot program. Offers a framework for encouraging teachers to look closely at the advantages of whole language without squeezing them between a rock and a hard place. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Program Descriptions
Spann, Mary Beth; And Others – Instructor, 1991
Several elementary teachers present school-tested ideas for student assessment and activities for teaching writing. The article describes how one school conducted student assessment using a new checklist system and portfolios. Information is presented on schools that integrated literature, art, life skills, math, and role playing to teach writing.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Informal Assessment, Kindergarten

Thomas, Karen F.; Barksdale-Ladd, Mary Alice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Outlines the potential for using whole language for remediation of reading disabilities. Criticizes current approaches to remediation. Discusses six principles of whole language instruction that are effective for remediation. Describes four whole-language programs that have successfully remediated students. Suggests alternative assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction

Monson, Michele Pahl; Monson, Robert J. – Educational Leadership, 1993
New roles for teachers in curriculum development conflict with traditional expectations. Constructing curriculum involves teachers' individual flexibility and collective uniformity. This article presents a curriculum-inquiry model that integrates elements of educational practice often dealt with in isolation (instruction, curriculum, assessment,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Participative Decision Making
Ciocci, Sandra R.; Morrell-Schumann, Marianne – Teaching English to Deaf and Second-Language Students, 1992
A private day school, Willie Ross School for the Deaf, designed a whole-language approach to reading appropriate for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. This article compares traditional and psycholinguistic approaches to reading, describes the early childhood classroom environment, and presents a lesson using folktales. An assessment checklist is…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Deafness, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Yellin, David – Kansas Journal of Reading, 1991
Outlines the main purposes of student evaluation. Suggests observation as an alternative to testing. Offers suggestions for keeping anecdotal records and a format for record sheets or class notebooks. Recommends that students keep records and maintain folders of their work. Cites an approach for teaching self-evaluation. Suggests helping students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Preservice Teacher Education
Horn, Evelyn D. – 1992
This paper presents a syllabus and proposed course outline for X100, a skills-based college remedial reading class (at Indiana University at South Bend) keyed to the whole-language literature. The paper: (1) reviews two sourcebooks for information regarding the use of whole language at the secondary level and lists viable whole language strategies…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Curriculum, College Students, Course Content

Bartlett, Andrea – Action in Teacher Education, 1994
Describes a qualitative case study of the total classroom environment created by an exemplary whole-language teacher. Emergent categories and member checks indicated that the classroom environment was organized according to three major principles (collaboration, student independence, and student self-evaluation). This classroom environment is…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5
Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1996
Describes the shift to portfolio assessment in Juneau (Alaska) schools, including teacher-developed assessment guidelines for language arts in elementary school and the use of portfolios in a special interdisciplinary high school program. Lists items that the district requires in elementary language-arts portfolios and recommendations to other…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Shelton, Deborah – 1995
A practicum was designed to create, implement, and evaluate a portfolio assessment system in a third grade classroom in a rural area of the southeastern United States, and to demonstrate to students, parents, and teachers the benefits of portfolios in complementing classroom instruction and evaluation. Standards, goals, and objectives for record…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Parent Participation

Larter, Sylvia; Donnelly, James – Educational Leadership, 1993
Benchmarks are designed to demystify educational goals and illuminate the nature of good performance for teachers, students, and parents. Since 1987, the Toronto Board of Education has developed over 100 language and mathematics benchmarks at grades 3, 6, and 8, combining observation with holistic evaluation. Instruction, learning, and evaluation…
Descriptors: Accountability, Benchmarking, Boards of Education, Educational Objectives

Fradd, Sandra H.; Bermudez, Andrea B. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1991
A field-tested instruction and assessment model is described that fosters development of second-language skills by integrating writing with listening, speaking, reading, and problem solving. The model draws upon elements of process-oriented instruction, whole language learning, cooperative learning, cognitive mapping, and reading and writing…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Mapping, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities
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