Sentences with phrase «adopting whole language»

What these programs most often teach is not to adopt the whole language approach but that the candidate should develop her own approach to teaching reading, based on exposure to various philosophies and approaches, none more valid than any other.

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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.

Most texts used to teach reading had been written by proponents of whole language methods, and there was only fleeting exposure to the kinds of scripted, phonics - based curriculums, like Open Court, that are increasingly being adopted in the nation's schools.

Whole language proponents also won a major victory in 1987, when California adopted guidelines for teaching English that were driven by the tenets of whole langWhole language proponents also won a major victory in 1987, when California adopted guidelines for teaching English that were driven by the tenets of whole langwhole language.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].