This analysis documents the increasingly dominant force
of whole language, literature - based reading and process writing in the discourse of elementary reading and language arts instruction.
approach to use with any and all students and to send the alternate message that there is no necessary conflict between authentic activity (usually considered the province
of whole language) and explicit instruction of skills and strategies (usually considered the province of curriculum - centered approaches).
Basal programs appropriated or, as some whole language advocates have argued, «basalized» the activities and tools
of whole language.
Proponents
of whole language say the approach is more than that.
Even some ardent whole language proponents such as Wolfe and Poynor (2001) acknowledge the decline
of whole language, but attribute this decline to a campaign led by researchers, the popular media, and the religious right.
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.
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 language.
«It is possible to teach spelling and still remain true to the philosophy
of whole language.»
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.
Chapters address: (1) an overview
of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.
In these, students compared the use
of whole language and skills orientations to teaching reading, discussed the management and use of different grouping arrangements (small - group, whole - class, and individual instruction), and considered the awareness and impact of diverse learners on teaching and learning.
Three paper assignments were central to the course, comparing the use
of whole language and skills orientations to teaching reading, management and use of different grouping arrangements (small group, whole class, and individual instruction), and the awareness and impact of diverse learners on teaching and learning.
Three newly published studies cast doubt on the effectiveness
of whole language as a method for teaching reading and suggest that direct instruction in phonics can be effective.
26, 27 — Whole language: «Singing and Reading Connection,» workshop on the theory and practice
of whole language through reading, rhyme, and song, sponsored by the National Educational Network, for pre-K-3 teachers, and music and special - education instructors, to be held on the 26th in Birmingham, Ala., and on the 27th in Jackson, Miss..
23, 24 — Whole language: «Singing and Reading Connection,» workshop on the theory and practice
of whole language through reading, rhyme, and song, sponsored by the National Educational Network, for pre-K-3 teachers, and music and special - education instructors, to be held on the 23rd in New Orleans, La., and on the 24th in Mobile, Miss..
«Balanced» is supposed to signal that it conjoins the best of scientifically based instruction with the best
of whole language.
It never occurred to them that there was supposed to be a war between disciples of the phonics approach to reading instruction and supporters
of whole language, who promoted learning to read by focusing on good literature and comprehension but neglected phonetics.
was billed as a discussion in which panelists would answer the critics
of whole language, a meaning - centered philosophy and method of teaching language arts.
However, none of the unique principles or novel practices
of whole language reading instruction is corroborated by experimental investigations.
Not exact matches
You may experience a bit
of a learning curve at first, since texting involves becoming familiar with a
whole new truncated
language, but it is easy to pick up.
There are extremely powerful tools that can help knowledge workers find insightful perspectives and answer a
whole host
of questions they might have about their area
of business using natural
language, just like using a search engine, but far more meaningful.
A recent redesign has made it look pretty slick, too: There are a good chunk
of themes, and the
whole thing now supports more than 100
languages.
The options are presented in a
whole new
language, full
of student loan terms you might not know.
The First Vatican Council included
language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar
of Christ and head
of the
whole Church and faith, and teacher
of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer
of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding
of the Office
of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.
His
language, taken as a
whole, is a combination
of twenty - first - century business jargon and empty technological platitudes.
Washington (CNN)- A leader
of an evangelical Christian organization pushing for immigration reform said that while the group needs to read the
whole bill filed Wednesday in the U.S. Senate before fully endorsing it, the legislation doesn't constitute amnesty «in any dictionary in the English
language.»
The
whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization
of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented
language.
Teilhard de Chardin uses more dynamic
language, but his system in which matter and spirit are seen as essentially a single, twin - faceted energy that runs through the
whole of reality, translates into much the same kind
of «panentheistic» vision.
I'd point to a
whole life
of unremarkable moments and the ancient streets in Rome and the night sky and dead
languages, to all
of the ways we defiantly choose life over death, the ways that our everyday lives testify to the victory
of God's dream for us.
The
language as a
whole is different, and although, through the distinct
languages, it is sometimes possible to discern common elements
of experience that are being named, this can not be taken for granted.
I am a Christian because Christianity gives me the
language to lament and to doubt, «to confess the ugly realities» as Austin said — from the violence I observe in the world and in my heart to «to the sin
of white America» which Emily Scott described as the attempt «to still the voice
of a
whole people and keep them from singing.»
I argue that the availability
of the Greek
language as a
whole during acts
of speaking or writing it would have to involve a high degree
of conceptual entertainment; otherwise, speech would be an impossible foraging operation among physical memory traces.
It is therefore
of the utmost importance that a child's
language difficulties be taken seriously and that remedial measures be applied without delay, since his
whole future as a person so largely depends on competence in the use
of symbols.
«We agree the movie as a
whole promotes Christian values and a redemptive message; however, it does contain instances
of street
language and racial slurs against African - Americans,» Marty King, LifeWay's communications director, said in a statement to CNN.
The other myth describes a time when all human beings lived in one harmonious society; «the
whole earth had one
language and the same words,» says the story
of the Tower
of Babel.2 The myth then explains why, in historical time, there have always been many
languages, many cultures and many societies.
The traditional distrust
of simple statement, and
of language as applied to the religious vision, in the new theology ceases to be an inoperative or inconsistently employed formal concession, and becomes a systematic tracing
of the relativity
of concepts to each other and to experience as a
whole.
-- Blessed Theresa
of Calcutta Focus on the person in front
of you with your
whole being, be conscious
of your body
language and listen to them not just with your ears but with your heart and intellect also.
One would wish Whitehead used the part /
whole language more often, particularly when discussing the Category
of the Ultimate.
The reason for this suggested change
of language is that
wholes are established at transition, and creative process (as in 2b) uses the togetherness
of the many prehensions (that give birth to the new
whole at transition) to make a new specification.
European religion is phony actors inside big Ugly goofy buildings built by retard Gentile European who think king David was a red headed European who spoke Latin as his birth
language in the middle east.European religious people are like a 400 pound anchor dragging in the sand wanting the 12 Hebrew Isrealite Tribes to all sing kombiyah at their lame hang another picture up cannonized a lame Gentile fake leader
of a has been lame their
whole life
For this will is the eternal order that governs all things, that brings you into union with the dead, and with the men whom you never see, with foreign people whose
language and customs you do not know, with all men upon the
whole earth, who are related to each other by blood and eternally related to the Divine by eternity's task
of willing only one thing.
Not only have they faced the difficulties
of language, but they have all been required to cover in a few pages material which could scarcely be covered adequately in a
whole book, and to fit that material into a common outline.
Feminists see that our
whole inherited system
of language expresses and undergirds the patriarchal practice.
Those familiar with Hartshorne may immediately notice that Brightman's distinction between the given and The Given precisely parallels Hartshorne's distinction between relative and absolute — and the
whole host
of phenomena which may be distinguished as either externally or internally related to one another.39 In Hartshorne's
language, The Given is only externally related to the given, while the given is internally related to The Given.
From a Whiteheadian point
of view, not only the initial aim
of God but God as a
whole (God's «consequent states,» in Hartshorne's
language) can be prehended.
Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way
of understanding the
whole world and a
language in which to speak about that world.
He describes in characteristically straightforward
language Protestantism's crisis
of authority and its need for real shepherds: «The Church must have not only normative sources written down on paper but also authoritative officeholders ordained to teach the
whole Church.»
Certainly one
of the reasons for the neglect
of both thinkers among English
language philosophers has been that they have not played the role which Russell and Wittgenstein did in generating so - called analytical philosophy (a philosophical style inimical, upon the
whole, to attempts to theorize about the nature
of the universe in general.
Whole books could be written on the idea
of cursing, profanity, expletives, what defines those terms, how cultural context affect
language's meaning, etc..
His own pet proof
of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend
of mine (a friend who has devoted too much
of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules
of logic and the elementary
language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the
whole history
of the human race.»