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The Balanced Literacy Diet.
Willows, Dale – School Administrator, 2002
Describes professional development program in Ontario school district to improve student reading and writing skills. Program used food-pyramid concepts to help teacher learn to provide a balanced and flexible approach to literacy instruction based on student needs. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Professional Development, Reading Instruction
Reconsidering Whole Language: Five Perspectives.
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Church, Susan; And Others – English Quarterly, 1995
Shares the views of five authors about what is being done in the name of whole language in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. States that these essays represent only temporary perspectives, and that more challenging questions about the theoretical assumptions that underlie whole language will arise. (PA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Feminism, Politics of Education, Special Education
H.E.L.P.: A Whole-Language Literacy Strategy That Works!
Crux, Sandra C. – Education Canada, 1991
Presents the Holistic Educational Literacy Process strategy for adult literacy education consisting of the following 10 steps: presenting an advance organizer; reading silently; reading aloud; listening to the passage recorded; listening and taking notes; highlighting important points; networking structures; summarizing the passage; revising the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Learning Strategies
A MAP for Reading Assessment.
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Bembridge, Teri – Educational Leadership, 1992
When commercially available tests failed to match their whole-language instructional practices, resource teachers in a Canadian school district developed their own instrument. Assembled over a five-year period, the Multi-Layered Assessment Package (MAP) is a set of procedures accompanied by suggested books, transcripts, and retelling and recording…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Reading Tests
Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted and Talented Deaf Students in Whole Language Classrooms.
MacDonald, Patricia; Yewchuk, Carolyn – ACEHI Journal/Revue ACEDA, 1994
This article describes how a teacher at the Manitoba School for the Deaf applied Kaplan's Curriculum Differentiation Model for gifted and talented students to develop a thematic unit ("Patterns") for a grade 3 whole language classroom. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Deafness, Gifted Disabled, Grade 3
Off the Track: Children Thrive in Ungraded Primary Schools.
Calkins, Trevor – School Administrator, 1992
According to one Canadian principal, two major educational changes are necessary: personalized instruction and constructive feedback. To make education more personal means acknowledging children as important individuals with social, emotional, and intellectual needs. Feedback in high quality nongraded classrooms can be provided through…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Change, Feedback, Foreign Countries
Dropping Digits: Dropout Rates Far Worse than Government Admits: Commissioner. Quebec Report.
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Kelebay, Yarema Gregory – Canadian Social Studies, 1996
Reports on current educational issues in Quebec (Canada). Briefly covers some of the major issues addressed in the Estates General, the commission study on the future of education in Quebec. A Montreal School commissioner challenged the government's numbers concerning dropouts. Decentralization, whole language learning, and school rankings also…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Educational Administration, Educational Finance