> misunderstood. Point in
 > question is that whole language educators do not teach
 > phonics. Not so.
Maybe where you are....but I have yet to see much phonics going on in the 
schools here. I know personally of one 1st grade teacher that teaches phonics 
in my girls' school...one out of five, that is.
 > So tell me Donna, since I asked you before what you
 > think of whole language, what is it about whole language that you
 > don't like?
1) It isn't implemented correctly here in the states. 2) The teachers here 
are not (for the most part) using phonics. (I have yet to teach a phonics 
lesson in two years of subbing for Poway district. Odd, considering I sub in 
a lot of primary grades!). 3) Though the kids are taught to write (good), 
there's not much taught in the line of parts of speech. (Don't ask my 4th 
grader what a verb is. She doesn't know.) 4) This one I can't blame 
completely on "whole language": within their writing, children are allowed to 
make grammatical errors that are never corrected!
What I like about whole language: 1) it emphasizes writing. 2) it emphasizes 
literature. 3) it emphasizes allowing the child to react in some way to good 
stories and literature.
                                 -donna
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