c, drama, and other communication systems as vehicles of exploration.
Indeed, all authors stress the across-the-curriculum application of Whole Language concepts. For example, C.R. Heymsfeld (1989), in "Filling the hole in whole language", Educational Leadership, defines Whole Language as...
...an approach that teaches reading as a holistic activity... The emphasis is always on meaning... Moreover, the theory does not confine itself to reading instruction. The underlying concept is that all the language arts are related and should not be taught as if they were separate subjects.
K. Goodman (1986) in What's Whole in Whole Language?:
How whole is whole?.. Some of the most effective whole language teachers aren't sure they are whole language teachers... Whole language is clearly a lot of things to a lot of people; it's not a dogma to be narrowly practiced... This is what many teachers are learning again from children: keep language whole and involve children in using it functionally and purposefully to meet their own
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