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ERIC Number: EJ360638
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Whole Language: What's New?
Altwerger, Bess; And Others
Reading Teacher, v41 n2 p144-54 Nov 1987
Suggests that Whole Language is not the whole word approach, nor merely teaching skills in context, nor the Language Experience approach, nor a new term for the Open Classroom, but rather a point of view about language, literacy, and content learning. (JC)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Oral Language, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Skills, Reading Writing Relationship, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Written Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Whole Language Approach