Notice that she had previously taught whole-language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading – Sing, Spell, Read & Write Phonics Part 1 « General Literacy « Videos « Literacy News] Reference

Do you think whole-language instruction has led the kids to better literacy, but poorer writing skills?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Academic Writing Skills: K-12? « Literacy Instruction « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference

Whether it be creationism, 'new math', phonics, whole-language etc. the idea has to win converts one by one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teacher Pay and Quality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The ‘whole-language’ teaching fiasco in primary schools was the perfect storm of this amateurish approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literacy News – 107th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference

Phonetics has been a right wing political football nationally ever since whole-language was introduced, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference

So we have the math wars, the whole-language versus phonics explosion, the knowledge versus process clash, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

More Than Letters contains an extensive whole-language curriculum that creates classroom environments that surround children with meaningful print.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Letters: Literacy Activities for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade « Books « Literacy News] Reference

That is to say, would whole-language have been implemented so single-mindedly if teachers weren't beset by parents and politicians angry about poor test scores?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To read, perchance to comprehend.] Reference

The whole-language movement believed that by exposing students to real text in real books, children could acquire literacy skills in much the same way as they acquire speaking skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 2008] Reference

Why, nearly ten years after the Atlantic ran an article saying that whole-language was being jettisoned in many schools nationwide, can the public school children of New York not read?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To read, perchance to comprehend.] Reference

The controversial but widely used whole-language reading instruction discussed below, for example, goes unquestioned by most educators because it fits hand-in-glove with learner-centered pedagogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

In the late 1970's I was teaching middle school English and became acquainted with the work of Donald Graves, one of the central figures in the process writing movement and its often-maligned and even-more-often misunderstood love child, the whole-language movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Core Beliefs: 1] Reference

While phonics based, the program incorporates a whole-language approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

I love those "I Can Read" books, because they teach in a whole-language way (I like phonics, too, of course).    From Wordnik.com.  [Snapshot] Reference

• lifelong learning • developmentally appropriate instruction • brain-based learning • situated learning • cooperative learning • multiple intelligences • multiaged instruction • discovery learning • portfolio assessment • constructivism • hands-on learning • project method • thematic learning • integrated curriculum • higher-order learning • authentic assessment • whole-language reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [[education destroyed] one of the root causes] Reference

The McWhorter piece seems to claim that whole-language hurts inner-city kids, even though it doesn’t hurt other kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference

The research wasn’t specified, but I’m wondering whether kids weren’t taken out of mediocre neglectful schools using whole-language and put into better schools using phonetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference

"whole-class instruction," "whole-language instruction.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GraniteGrok] Reference