Whole Language, Whole Learners: Creating a Literature-Centered Classroom

By Laura Robb

Book Overview

Whole language is a child-centered approach to learning that has revolutionized education. Shows how personal creativity and willingness to grow are the main ingredients of a successful transition into whole language. Shows how whole language philosophy can be applied across the curriculum. Includes hundreds of pragmatic ideas and tips for independent and group activities. Includes 15 essays on the creative process by well-known children's book authors and illustrators -- Steven Kellogg, Ed Young, Katherine Paterson, Rosemary Wells, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Cormier, Seymour Simon, Susan Jeffers, and others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688119565
• ISBN13: 9780688119560
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Quill
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The best book on developing a reading program in a school.

Professional educator, Laura Robb, has done an excellent job explaining the whole langage philosophy, practice, and politics to other educators and to parents. Robb's remise is that language is all around us and should not be confined to classes labeled "reading" and/or "language arts." She describes how teachers and administrators can move students from traditional basal readers and workbooks to a true whole language approach. Robb explains how incorporating a true whole language curiculum need not cost an enormous amount of money although incorporating such a program requires effort and commitment on the part of the teachers and administrators. Robb also offers suggestions and tips that parents could use working with the PTA/PTO/Parents' Guild to move a traditional school more toward a whole language philosopy. I highly recommend this book to every parent with a child is a public, parochial, or private school. I whish it were required reading for all teachers. This book should be recommended reading for every parent who is interested in his/her child's education and it should be required reading for every educator in America.