Routman (1991)

Froese (1991)

Whole language is someway to band

view about language, about learning

and about people the interesting in

learning.

1. Reading aloud

2. Journal writing

3. Sustained silent reading

4. Shared reading

5. Guided reading

6. Guided writing

7. Independent reading

8. Independent writing

Semantic

Syntactic

Pragmatic

graphophonemic

Class that applies whole language heaving full with printed matter.

Learned student via model or example.

Working student and learned according to its developing

zoom.

Shared student accountability in learning.

State of the debate

Adoption of some whole language concepts

Balanced literacy

whole language is contrasted

with skill-based areas of

instruction, especially phonics

and synthetic phonics.

Changing as class whole language requiring

time that adequately long time

In implement whole language teacher shall

understand before component whole language

whole language's excess

Learning to read is not natural.

The alphabetic principle is not learned simply from exposure to print.

Spoken language and written language are very

different, and mastery of each requires unique skills and proficiencies.

Whole Language is a method of teaching reading and language arts. Whole Language teachers believe in teaching reading in context, looking at the "whole" word versus breaking the word into parts.