WHAT'S WHOLE IN WHOLE LANGUAGE?: A PARENT/TEACHER GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S LEARNING

by Ken Goodman

Ken Goodman's small book offers a wealth of sound reading theory principles.

Genres: Education

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Smoran8m · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes. Yes. and Yes. This book 100% holds up. "In our zeal to make [reading] easy, we've made it harder." Our education system, and especially the systemic high-stakes assessment of students, is teaching them that reading is hard, a chore to be completed. Whole Language provides the exact opposite approach. It has been given a bad "rap" in the press. IMHO that is because supporting whole language means directing funds into paying educators and treating them as professionals, rather than pouring money into buying products and promoting one "get smart quick" scheme after another.

[Lesley Looper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book early in my teaching career, and enjoyed getting ideas from it at the time.

[Aaron Slack · Rating 1 out of 5]

A lovely little diatribe against phonics.