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Toliver, Marilyn – Reading Teacher, 1990
Offers suggestions to incorporate holistic reading and writing activities into existing curricula and classroom structure to create a print-rich environment in which children use reading and writing in meaningful ways. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach

DeMars, Judith – Reading Teacher, 1990
Offers seven practical suggestions, which can be adapted to any grade level, for extending one's classroom to the outdoors. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Integrated Activities

Melvin, Mary P. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Uses boxes, bottles, bags, brochures, and other print materials to create more interesting and more effective whole language lessons. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Instructional Materials

Staab, Claire F. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes one morning's reading and writing activities in a first grade classroom to provide an example of how one whole literacy teacher mediates children's learning. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Primary Education

Baumann, James F.; Hoffman, James V.; Moon, Jennifer; Duffy-Hester, Ann M. – Reading Teacher, 1998
Reports on a nationwide survey of instructional beliefs and practices of elementary public school teachers. Finds that teachers generally do not assume a polar, either/or approach to phonics and whole language, but instead provide children a balanced eclectic program involving both reading skill instruction and immersion in enriched literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Phonics, Politics of Education

DeGroff, Linda – Reading Teacher, 1990
Comments on six points of belief commonly held by whole language teachers. Considers how computers can facilitate teaching and learning in ways that are consistent with those points of belief. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education

Au, Kathryn H.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1990
Shares a curriculum framework based on six aspects of literacy: ownership, reading comprehension, writing process, word identification, language and vocabulary knowledge, and voluntary reading. Notes that this framework is consistent with a whole literacy approach, and includes an assessment system and provisions for accountability. (MG)
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Reader Response

McWhirter, Anna M. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes whole language reading workshops used in eighth grade classrooms. Notes that workshops consist of three components: time to read, ownership through self-selection, and opportunities to respond to the reading through dialogue journals. (MG)
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Functional Reading, Grade 8, Middle Schools