“Whole language, in its extreme form, is a failure,” said Frank Vellutino, director of the Child Research and Study Center of the State University of New York at Albany.

The whole-language philosophy of teaching literacy stresses that children should use language in ways that are applicable to their own lives and cultures. Students are encouraged to decode words in ...

Whole language was a movement a few years ago. It is a way to teach reading. The fundamental concept comes down to teaching children to focus on meaning as they ...

Whole language, an instructional philosophy that is based on the belief that children learn to read through exposure to good books and that minimizes the teaching of basic reading skills, ...

The whole language cult must be stopped before its spurious, unfounded beliefs take a harsh toll on yet another generation of kids. Originally Published: February 17, 2023 at 6:17 PM PST.

But in her November 2000 Fordham report, Whole Language Lives On: The Illusion of “Balanced” Reading Instruction, Moats points out that the worst practices of the failed whole language approach have ...

Any “whole language” approach that de-emphasizes encoding and decoding skills is, in effect, a “no language” approach. There’s nothing at all natural about learning to read.

Dick and Jane are dead. Spot’s dead, too. Thank goodness. The 19 first-graders in Jane Worthington’s class at Botetourt Elementary School in Gloucester County don’t have to strugg… ...

With a touch of humor, Julie Frerichs calls her whole-language classroom ”a big reading mess.” She is referring to her decorating motif, with student reading charts and writing projects, as ...

“We must keep the good parts of whole language and keep the pendulum from swinging all the way back to all phonics all the time.” I realize the proficient versus grade-level issue is not addressed in ...

As an example, she cited an October 1999 Education Leadership article titled “Whole Language Works: Sixty Years of Research,” by three authors “who caricature code-emphasis instruction . . .; make ...

In the Wheaton-Glen Ellyn Teachers Applying Whole Language (TAWL) group, teachers are constantly learning what it takes to have a whole-language classroom.”It takes years, I think, to become a ...