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Peer reviewedWood, Margo; O'Donnell, Michael P. – Reading Improvement, 1991
Discusses three trends in approaches to reading and literacy instruction: (1) the move from basal to literature-based instruction; (2) the move from emphasis on product to emphasis on process; and (3) the trend away from teacher as technician toward teacher as decision maker. States that these trends will result in profound and lasting changes in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Literacy
Peer reviewedHatch, 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
Peer reviewedFlickinger, Gayle Glidden; Long, Emily S. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Shares ways in which teachers who use a basal reading series can go beyond the manual and integrate the whole language approach into the language arts program. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
