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essarily part of a "whole language” program, there were no little books to go with it.
Her fellow first grade teacher Pearl Barron suggested that once more publishers get involved in trying to meet the market for books for "whole language” instruction, competition may drive the price down.
In writing the “whole language” program caUs for the children to write their own stories. First grade teacher Betty Settle has had her classes doing that this year. Almost every day the children have been doing some writing.
She started by reading and then suggesting they write about something related to what she had just read. At first, she reported they had trouble thinking of something to write about. Then they became inpre comfortable with the process, and some children could spend up to 40 minutes a day writing.
Later, she said, they could write about anything that interested them, and although they still had trouble starting, the students came to feel they had plenty to write about.
One day recently the children wrote for about 30 minutes and then
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