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ERIC Number: EJ594873
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Whole Language Works: Sixty Years of Research.
Daniels, Harvey; Zemelman, Steve; Bizar, Marilyn
Educational Leadership, v57 n2 p32-37 Oct 1999
"Decodable text" devotees say phonics is scientifically superior to the whole-language approach, which supposedly lacks research validation. However, 60 years of research supports holistic, literature-based approaches to literacy. Whole-language instruction is further validated by research on independent reading, cooperative learning, Reading Recovery, and beginning reading. Contains 46 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cooperative Learning, Decoding (Reading), Educational History, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Independent Reading, Literacy Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Whole Language Approach, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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