Portraits of Whole Language Classrooms: Learning for All Ages

'Portraits of Whole Language Classrooms' describes learners of all ages, beginning with a home day-care setting though preschool programs and elementary classrooms to a junior high and high school. Readers also visit a special education site and an English-as-a second-language classroom. The journey concludes in a laboratory school staffed by graduate students in a university reading methods course. By presenting such a variety of settings, the authors demonstrate that whole language theory cuts across grade levels and student populations.