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More about Whole Language Methods of Reading Instruction for Students at Risk for Early Reading Failure.
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Pressley, Michael; Rankin, Joan – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
This literature review contends that whole-language approaches to reading are not well supported by scientific analyses of reading and reading instruction. The paper argues that whole language is not the preferred approach of outstanding primary and special education teachers, who favor instruction which balances decoding instruction and…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), High Risk Students, Literacy Education, Primary Education
Whole Language Reading Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Caught in the Cross Fire.
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Mather, Nancy – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This paper reviews the history of whole-language versus code-emphasis approaches to reading instruction. The paper concludes that students with severe learning disabilities may learn to read in a whole-language, mainstream classroom, if provided with supplemental instruction, a variety of instructional techniques, and appropriate intensity and…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia