REVIEWS Understanding Texts in Contexts: Transforming Power Relationships in the Classroom Whole Language Plus: Essays on Liter- acy in the United States and New Zea-

T he 18 essays on language and liter-acy learning in this volume were written by Courtney Cazden at differ-ent times during the past 20 years. In the introduction, Cazden states that the book advances a single argument about literacy education, namely, that immer-sion in rich literacy environments is necessary, but not sufficient. This argu-ment presumably is what the first part her title—"whole language plus"—is intended to reflect. Whole Language Plus is an unfortunate choice of title, for it implies deficiencies of the whole language movement that seem to be both trivial and extremel