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Gutknecht, Bruce – 1990
Like Humpty Dumpty after the fall from the wall, language does not work effectively when it is not whole. For many students, the reading problems they begin to experience in the third or fourth grade are caused by the basic skills manner in which beginning reading is taught. Recognizing the limitations of basic skills instruction and the genre of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Functional Literacy, Public Schools
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1988
Reflecting new understandings about language and literature, this curriculum guide is most influenced by the collective knowledge about the close association between language and learning, language and thinking, and language and personal growth. The guide recommends that students be encouraged at all times to use their personal, unstructured…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textStephens, Diane – 1991
This report discusses whole language, portraying it as a philosophy of education with three basic premises: (1) learning in school ought to incorporate what is known about learning outside of school; (2) teachers should base curricular decisions on what is known, they should possess and be driven by a vision of literacy, they should use…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Educational Philosophy
Sanacore, Joseph – 1990
Administrators should realize that whole language is a multidimensional belief system, that everyone involved in its implementation must become a learner, and that this process requires risk taking in a supportive environment. Principals can provide such support by working cooperatively with teachers during every phase of implementation. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Administrators, Elementary Education
Wright, Teresa A. – 1990
An instructional program was designed to improve the oral language skills of kindergarten students. The target group consisted of 10 students who, according to their scores on the Yellow Brick Road Language Battery, were in need of a strong language development program. The instructional plan was based on the Shared Book Experience and other…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities
Broughton, Esther – 1990
A writing instructor/graduate student investigated elements essential in helping and empowering student writers, while embarking on her own journey for a Ph.D. in rhetoric. Getting more knowledge is the catalyst that started the journey and includes the following stops: Philosophiville, Theory Town, Rhetorical Junction, and Writing Center City. Of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Teaching, Rhetorical Theory, Teacher Student Relationship
Ezell, Jeanne R. – 1990
Within the field of composition, classical rhetoric was re-discovered in the early 1960s; that interest has been for the most part confined to the first three of the five parts of classical rhetoric--invention, arrangement, and style--with memory and delivery being ignored or, at least, neglected. Recent interest in "the speaking-writing…
Descriptors: Discussion, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Marley, Bernard M.; Marley, Linda G. – 1990
The creative writing process, like any writing process, begins with a prewriting activity. Story starters are one such activity which teachers can use to begin the creative writing process with their students. For example, large cartoon-like characters made on an opaque projector can be used to initiate discussion. The second step requires a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Miller, Janet A. – 1990
A study examined the theoretical orientation of infant school and infant department teachers in England. The Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) was used to determine the teacher's orientation to reading instruction. TORP applies a Likert scale response system to a series of statements about how reading should be taught. Subjects…
Descriptors: British Infant Schools, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Meredith, David – 2003
This paper reviews a small sampling of recent research-supported method studies that were consistent with the prominent current philosophical practice in English-as-a-Second-Language/English-as-a-Foreign-Language (ESL/EFL) reading education. It focuses on the following: The Advent of Whole Language in ESL/EFL Study; Teaching from a Constructivist…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Centre, Haifa (Israel). – 1997
This document reports on a three 3-day workshops on the whole-language approach in early childhood education held in Thailand in 1997. There were 119 registrants, including graduate students, teachers, and university instructors. Workshops were translated into the Thai language. The first workshop introduced the whole-language approach and…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Weaver, Constance, Ed. – 1998
This collection reflects the stance that a truly balanced approach to reading instruction will focus not only on reading but on literacy; integrate language and literacy across disciplines; attend to reading, writing, and other skills and strategies in context; and reflect a coherent integration of as broad a research base as possible. Following a…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Literacy
Keating, Patricia R. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of whole language versus phonics on reading achievement. Four second-grade students participated--two were chosen for a control sample in which they were taught using the modified whole language approach; and two were chosen for the experimental sample and were taught using the modified…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics
Boran, Sibel, Ed.; Comber, Barbara, Ed. – 2001
This book, part of the Whole Language Umbrella Series, offers a critical reexamination of "inquiry" and "whole language" as tools for rethinking literacy, schooling, and humanistic citizenship in the complexities of today's multicultural world. The essays in the book explore the political implications of literacy theories and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Literacy
Moats, Louisa Cook – 2000
This position paper contends that the whole language approach to reading instruction has been disproved by research and evaluation but still pervades textbooks for teachers, instructional materials for classroom use, some states' language-arts standards and other policy documents, teacher licensing requirements and preparation programs, and the…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Primary Education, Public Schools, Reading Instruction
