Sentences with phrase «whole language advocates»

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

Basal programs appropriated or, as some whole language advocates have argued, «basalized» the activities and tools of whole language.

Whole language advocates counter that phonics uses boring drills and practice, and delays children's access to real books.

Not exact matches

Such an approach incorporates phonics instruction with the rich literacy environments advocated by whole language instruction.

When she was hired, Peninsula gained another advocate for the district's approach to literacy instruction — a crucial avenue of influence when some schools in the district adopted whole - language approaches to literacy that the school found inconsistent with its own philosophy.

Otherwise we will remain caught between the usual warring parties: pro-teacher unions versus anti-union groups;... devotees of phonics versus «whole language» theorists; open classroom versus fixed - seat advocates;... those who believe that tests motivate improvement versus those who think tests hold teachers unfairly accountable and create a climate of fear.

Literacy instruction in California at this time was taking place within a raging national debate between advocates for phonics and supporters of whole language, and Proposition 227 had recently been passed, forcing dramatic reorganization of language and literacy instruction in school.