Whole Language

An explanation of the whole-language classroom.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• kid
• child
• early
• learn
• class
• classroom
• whole
• language
• speak

[abcwritestartread]

@salemrush great! Hole Languish, love it! Got one for TC Readers Workshop? A repackaging of WL, the educrats keep recycling this junk in the classroom.

[abcwritestartread]

WL yuck, I have tutored hundreds who have not learned to read, write and spell due to this faulty mwthod. The Emperor has No Clothes here yet many teachers still use it, now called Teachers College Reading Workshop by Lucy Calkins who simply repackaged this and made millions.

[drlauriecurtis]

The teacher should take on the role of decision maker- it is not whole language that is at fault.. but the teacher that blindly uses any approach to the extent that they can't supplement to meet the needs of their own students. Teachers should be knowledgeable enough to know that one approach doesn't work for any classroom- and whole language is just one "tool" in the toolbox.

[andyaxe1976]

Good stuff here. Aligned with the majority of research in literacy. I would not give credits to the NRP report. The NRP report has been discredit by most of the major researchers in literacy. I would encourage you to read, Reading the Naked Truth" by Gearld Coles.

[andyaxe1976]

@stocomotion

NRP - HA! Obviously you have not read or analyzed the studies - or you are unfamiliar with education research. The NRP report has been discredit by most of the major researchers in literacy. I would encourage you to read, Reading the Naked Truth" by Gearld Coles. Ha. NRP. That's funny.

[spyoe]

How old is this video anyway? It looks like it was made in the late 1980s or early 1990s. There are much more effective reading intervention programs available nowadays. In any case, Whole Language used by itself was a disastrous experiment which resulted in many illiterate kids.

[stocomotion]

Hmmm, have the whole language experts taken a peek at National Reading Panel results? Might pop their blown out of proportion bubble.

[crypticlife]

If a classroom is using Direct Instruction, the program created by Siegfried Engelmann, however, there is but one measure, and you don't have to visit the classroom.

Can the kids read?

Yes, shockingly, the outcome is important. WL advocates would want you to believe that whether the kids can actually read at the end of being taught is a subsidiary concern. Personally, I know what I want for my kids.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

This was one of the troubling videos that inspired me to create a rebuttal: No More Sight Words (on YouTube). I'm glad to see that salemrush and broomunit have added very astute comments.

[salemrush]

Please, call it what it is, Hole Languish, 'cause that's what you are sentencing these kids to. You intentionally set them up to fail so you can bury them with your didactics.