For All is pitched to the classroom. The children huddled together on strips of carpet laid to cushion the hardwood floors. Kick in, kick out. For All, though it's blended with a dash of whole language. Whole language is a reading method built on the assumption that children will read if exposed to lots of literature.
Repetition is important, as is reading in pairs to reinforce lessons learned.
Across the hall in Room 202, Janis Quinn went over phonetic sounds. Twenty-one pens changed the D to an F, then the students sounded out the word slowly in unison. It was all in Quinn's manual, which she read from the front of the room. But those manuals also have been a controversial component of Success For All. More than one Hanstein teacher rolled her eyes when asked whether the reading program's rigidness hindered her instruction.