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Ryan, Howard; Goodman, Debra – English in Education, 2016
US public education faces concerted attack by those bent on corporate control, privatization, regimented reading instruction, and high-stakes testing. One democratic, humanistic, and research-based alternative can be found in the theory and practice of whole language, which empowered teachers and students alike through the 1980s and 1990s -- until…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality
Teacher Magazine, 1991
This article introduces a special section on the whole-language approach. The five articles discuss whole language's roots, whole language in the classroom, two schools that have embraced whole language, and whole-language resources. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Whole Language Approach
Taylor, Monica; Otinsky, Gennifer – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2007
As we strive to help pre-service teachers understand both why and how to teach for social justice, we face the challenge of making whole language teaching less abstract and intangible. Frequently pre-service teachers understand the principles of teaching for social justice but have no sense of how to infuse them into their teaching. They accept…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Education Courses

Lerner, Janet W.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This article presents an interview with two experts in whole-language instruction (Patricia Tefft Cousin and Margaret Richeck) and then offers a commentary section that provides another perspective of the whole-language method, concluding that children with learning disabilities need many types of instruction. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods

French, Martha – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
Teaching grammar to deaf and hard-of-hearing students within a whole-language perspective involves recognition of students' developmental needs and the needs of the task. Strategies for teaching grammar include comparing student work with standard writing; identifying and classifying nouns and verbs; clarifying the roles of modifiers; and building…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Hearing Impairments

Mason, David; Ewoldt, Carolyn – American Annals of the Deaf, 1996
This position paper discusses how the tenets of Whole Language and Deaf Bilingual-Bicultural Education complement each other. It stresses that Whole Language emphasizes a two-way teaching/learning process and Deaf Bilingual-Bicultural Education emphasizes mutual respect in the sociocultural experiences and values of deaf and hearing people.…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Curriculum, Deafness
Williams, Sharon K. – Teacher Magazine, 1991
Presents an annotated list of associations, organizations, book publishing companies, children's bookstores, magazines, catalogs, and hot lines that can provide elementary and secondary teachers with more information on the whole-language approach to teaching and learning. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Professional Associations, Publications

Wolfe, Paula; Poynor, Leslie – Educational Researcher, 2001
The whole language movement evolved partly from a larger political context. Anti-whole language arguments were responses to increased student and teacher empowerment threatening traditional hierarchies and certain characterizations of whole language. By calling whole language a point on the pendular cycle, critics mounted an aggressive campaign in…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education

Keefe, Charlotte Hendrick; Keefe, Donald R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1993
A whole-language instructional approach is presented for use with students with learning disabilities. Teacher behaviors are outlined, including demonstrating, expecting success, and responding to students. Learner behaviors are also discussed, such as using language in natural situations, making approximations in their learning, taking…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Reading Instruction

Thompson, Gail L. – Educational Forum, 2000
A survey of 117 California educators found that 90% believe there is a reading crisis; they identified multiple factors: teaching methods, lack of parental support, and high numbers of English-as-second-language learners; 60% felt they were inadequately prepared to teach reading. Those who rated their ability excellent or good believed in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Phonics, Reading Difficulties

De Vleeschower, Mary Jo – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1993
This paper describes the process of training teachers of students with hearing impairments to use whole-language teaching methods. The paper discusses success with whole language, resistance to whole-language methods, effects on students, effects on teaching, and advice to other trainers. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Sawyer, Diane J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
This paper discusses the history of U.S. reading instruction; instructional approaches and learning processes; the whole language view of literacy acquisition; promoting literate behavior through reading to or writing with children, shared reading, and guiding children's reading/writing; and use of the whole language approach with…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Literacy Education

Mather, Nancy – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This paper reviews the history of whole-language versus code-emphasis approaches to reading instruction. The paper concludes that students with severe learning disabilities may learn to read in a whole-language, mainstream classroom, if provided with supplemental instruction, a variety of instructional techniques, and appropriate intensity and…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming

LeNard, Judith; Delk, Linda – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
A group of Ohio teachers of deaf students received in-depth training in the use of whole-language strategies, focusing first on writing strategies, followed by reading instruction and integration of reading and writing. The training plan involved group instruction, reading materials, observations, individual conferences, teacher-trainer dialogue…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Integrated Activities
Reetz, Linda J. – 1993
This paper presents a historical study of three issues in education: (1) the teaching of morals; (2) teacher retraining; and (3) practices in language arts. It demonstrates that recent actions by the South Dakota legislature to ensure that children are given moral and character instruction are similar to efforts undertaken in the 1890s in North…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction