language experience approach in education

The author discusses her realization that students were not connecting the skills learned in isolation with real-life reading and writing, offers advice on making children's literature the heart of skills instruction, and presents lessons and extension activities.

The author, a whole language kindergarten teacher, outlines her beliefs about how children learn; offers discussions of whole language theory and application, especially in the area of language arts; and includes bibliographies, and an appendix in which teachers share their successful classroom strategies.

Presents thirty-three literature-based social studies units, each with book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, and activities for every grade level. Includes lists of Web sites and annotated bibliographies.

Suggests ways the whole language theory in education can be put into practice in classrooms.

A teacher's guide to the whole language approach to reading and comprehension.

A guide for teachers interested in using the Whole Language method of instruction in their classrooms, using literature as a base for teaching history, geography, science, math, and other curriculum subjects.

Presents reproducible assessment tools which may be used to collect, record, and analyze the literacy progress of students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Provides strategies for teaching literacy across the curriculum, discussing school wide collaboration, using foreign language classes as models, taking notes, editing, revising, speaking, listening, collaborative learning, and other related topics.

Teaches social studies using children's literature, and includes suggested activities and projects.