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2012 Annual Conference

Whole Language Umbrella

WLU is an NCTE Conference made up of whole language support groups and individual professionals interested in developing and implementing whole language in educational institutions. WLU is based on a view of whole language as a dynamic philosophy of education. Learn more by viewing the WLU Beliefs.

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Click here for more informationWLU Literacies for All Summer Insitute
Join us in "Reclaiming Joy in Teaching, Learning, and Research" and celebrating in the wonderfully supportive forum that gathers each year under the whole language umbrella.  Learn more here!  

 

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Write for Talking Points

Talking PointsEditors Carol Gilles and Katie Van Sluys invite you, your colleagues, students and/or teachers that you know to submit manuscripts for Talking PointsThe next two calls are:

  • October 2012:  Re-seeing Response, Refining New Literacies (submit by March 1, 2012)
  • May 2013: Talking, Learning and Critiquing (submit by Oct. 1, 2012)

Learn more about Talking Points and how you can submit your manuscript at http://www.ncte.org/journals/tp/write.

 

New Books and More

English Language Learners in Literacy WorkshopsEnglish Language Learners in Literacy Workshops

Marsha Riddle Buly, a mainstream classroom teacher who became a reading specialist and then a specialist in bilingual/ELL education, shows how reading, writing, and language workshops can be used to help language learners in mainstream K–8 classrooms.

On Demand Web SeminarAlso, check out the On Demand Web seminar featuring Marsha Riddle Buly on 3 Strategies for Reaching Language Learners in Literacy Workshops.

 

Becoming Writers in the Elementary ClassroomBecoming Writers in the Elementary Classroom: Visions and Decisions.

WLU Past President and author, Katie Van Sluys, demonstrates how to (re)claim our professional practice to ensure that young people have the opportunity to become competent, constantly growing writers who use writing to think, communicate, and pose as well as solve problems.

In this article from The Council Chronicle, August 2011, Katie Van Sluys notes that what teachers believe about teaching writing influences how their students learn to write.

 

Click here for more informationTeaching Phonics in Context 

Through myriad classroom vignettes, experienced educators David Hornsby and Lorraine Wilson show just how phonics is taught and learned in literacy-rich classrooms.

On Demand Web SeminarAlso, check out the On Demand Web seminar featuring David and Lorraine on Reading and Writing in the Elementary Classroom:  Teaching Phonics in Context.

    

What Whole Language Is Not: Common Myths and Misunderstandings

CELT12 common myths about whole language are dispelled in this Fact Sheet from the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT).

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