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Harris, Theodore L., Ed.; Hodges, Richard E., Ed. – 1995
Designed to be a resource to help educational practitioners, researchers, and other interested persons in the national and international community to understand terms used in contemporary and historical writings about literacy, this dictionary provides authenticated definitions of the technical terminology of the nature, study, and practice of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPace, Glennellen – Language Arts, 1991
Identifies key premises from whole language theory relative to (1) language and language acquisition; (2) reading and writing processes; (3) teaching and learning; and (4) curriculum. Notes that these premises provide direct assistance to teachers in planning literature-based instruction. Discusses questions and underlying principles using…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedNorris, Janet A.; Damico, Jack S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
This paper presents theoretical principles of the whole language approach and its historical interdisciplinary influences. Suggestions for implementing whole language intervention with language-disordered children are presented, such as using theme building to achieve long- and short-term objectives, using scaffolding strategies, and using…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Cambourne, Brian – 1988
Based on years of classroom observation, this book presents the thesis that powerful, critical, active, productive literacy can be achieved systematically, and regularly, with large numbers of the school population, if the principles currently known as the whole language approach are applied. The book is based on the assumptions that learning to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Download full textHillerich, Robert L. – 1990
Like so many slogans, "Whole Language" is a dangerous term because its meaning varies with each educator. Whole Language is not a method of teaching, nor is it a program; it is a philosophy or viewpoint. Nine major characteristics of a Whole Language approach as culled from a variety of sources, with most agreed upon by a majority of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Educational Philosophy, Integrated Curriculum
Lancy, David F., Ed. – 1994
Noting that renaming common folk practices as "emergent literacy" practices legitimizes these unacknowledged ways of learning to read and write, this book highlights the importance of out-of-school literacy experiences and the value of real literature and real writing. It stresses a reciprocal relationship between basic research on the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Early Reading
Schirmer, Barbara R. – 1994
This text provides preservice and inservice teachers with comprehensive information regarding how children who are deaf learn to use language in face-to-face communication, reading, and writing. The text presents both practical teaching strategies and the theoretical foundations on which teaching strategies are built. Individual chapters address…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Schirmer, Barbara R. – 2000
This text provides preservice and inservice teachers with comprehensive information regarding how children who are deaf learn to use language in face-to-face communication, reading, and writing. Individual chapters address the following topics: (1) acquisition of linguistic knowledge in the child who is deaf, language goals for classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
