LITERACY @ ECSD

Whole Part Whole or WPW is an interactive instructional approach that works well with TBLT and is described on page 31 of the Support Kit of the document ESL for All (2016) as an approach that "reinforces the notion that each task is comprised of a series of smaller, more manageable steps that help learners ultimately perform targeted real-world tasks."

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The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks has a great video that shows a teacher using WPW in a CLB 2L class. The video is 12:46 minutes long; a description of how the lesson for the video was planned can be found on pages 54 to 59 and its module plan, lesson plan, handouts, SU and ATs are on pages 136 to 150 from the Support Kit of the document ESL for All (2016).

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A Practical Guide to Teaching ESL Literacy (2018) from Bow Valley College has a section on WPW that goes from pages 199 to 203. This section showcases the use of WPW as an approach to reading instruction by giving examples of what happens in each part and linking WPW to literacy skills.