Beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir returns with a call to witness the transformativ

This seminal collection brings together the multiple perspectives of whole language educators over the course of the past thirty-five years. The essays illustra

The authors offer ideas for developing strategies including word sorts, cluster analyses, homophone pairs, silent letter searches, cumulative charts and word we

Teachers interested in transforming their traditional kindergartens into child-centred Whole Language classrooms now have a model for change.

This position paper contends that the whole language approach to reading instruction has been disproved by research and evaluation but still pervades textbooks