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Dunlap, William F. – Academic Therapy, 1982
Readiness activities are described which are designed to help learning disabled (LD) students learn to perform computations in story problems. Activities proceed from concrete objects to numbers and involve the students in devising story problems. The language experience approach is incorporated with the enactive, iconic, and symbolic levels of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
Rothman, Sheldon L. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Discusses the language experience approach to remedial reading as a method to move the high school student with poor reading skills away from instructional techniques with which the student has experienced difficulty and into a no-fail reading situation. (HTH)
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedFeeley, Joan T. – Reading Teacher, 1979
A workshop for primary teachers demonstrated the effectiveness of the language experience approach with bilingual students. (DD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHall, MaryAnne – Language Arts, 1979
Establishes five premises on which language-centered reading is based and makes five recommendations for language-centered reading instruction. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedShuman, R. Baird; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Hansen-Krening, Nancy – 1983
Six conceptions prevail about the language experience approach (LEA) although research and practical experience have proven them false. (1) "LEA does not teach basic skills." If basic skills are defined as communication competence, LEA teaches basic communication skills as well as the mechanics of communication. (2) "A language experience…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedCanady, Robert J. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Advocates a psycholinguistic view of the reading process and a language experience approach to reading instruction. Offers suggestions to improve students' reading performance. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Psycholinguistics, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedEpstein, Kitty Kelly – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes the techniques, including the use of a peer tutor and the language experience approach, that helped a 16-year-old nonreader learn to read. (MKM)
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Peer Teaching, Reading Instruction
Turner, Judy – Primary English Notes (P.E.N.), 1984
The teaching activities presented in this pamphlet focus on spelling. The pamphlet begins with a discussion of the relationship between spelling and writing. Following that, it describes a language experience approach and its implications, the benefits of daily writing, and the kind of writing that allows a successful spelling program to operate.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Development, Language Experience Approach, Spelling
James, Michael – Academic Therapy, 1986
An approach to spelling instruction allows students to select spelling words as part of a whole-language, language experience writing program. Guidelines for implementing such a program are offered. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities, Spelling Instruction
Peer reviewedHacker, Charles J. – Language Arts, 1980
Discusses the effect of previous knowledge on reading comprehension. Suggests reading instruction methods that evoke the readers' experiences, or schemata, relevant to the material. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Prior Learning
Bassano, Sharron; Christison, Mary Ann – 1982
This teacher's guide presents activities designed to use student-created artwork and writing in the learning of English as a second language. It can also be adapted to other second languages and to all age groups from kindergarten through adults. The activities encourage students to produce drawings or writings based on their own experiences. They…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Activities, English (Second Language), Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedKinney, Martha A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Shows how the language experience approach is a useful tool in teaching expository prose structure to elementary school students. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedSmith, Nancy J. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reviews ways that the word processor makes the language experience approach easier for teachers and students. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Microcomputers
Crisp, Glen – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Briefly defines nine distinct methods of teaching reading and summarizes how teachers use reading materials. (AEA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach
