Talking Points is published by WLU, the Whole Language Umbrella, a conference of NCTE. Talking Points helps promote literacy research and the use of whole language instruction in classrooms. It provides a forum for parents, classroom teachers, and researchers to reflect about literacy and learning. (Published semiannually, October and May.)
Editors:
Carol Gilles
University of Missouri, Columbia
Jennifer Wilson
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Contact: TalkingPoints@missouri.edu
The children are changed because of that work and the presence of their voices. They experienced success, the intensity that leads up to success, and the value that a human being feels when she or he has something to say, says it, and is heard.
—Richard J. Meyer
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