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Peer reviewedGayeski, Gail Y. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Uses the language experience approach with a state driver's manual to teach disabled adolescent readers and educable mentally retarded students. (RS)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities, Remedial Reading, Secondary Education
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
Peer reviewedWaugh, Joyce Clark – Journal of Reading, 1993
Describes using the language experience approach as a diagnostic tool with adults who want to learn to read. Offers a checklist. (SR)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Check Lists, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedLaSasso, Carol – Journal of Reading, 1983
Using a 16-year-old deaf male as an example, shows how language-handicapped students can benefit from the language experience approach when their dictation is modified toward standard written English. (FL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Experience Approach, Language Handicaps, Language Skills
Peer reviewedLehr, Fran – Journal of Reading, 1984
Examines several approaches to vocabulary development that are alternatives to direct vocabulary instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Humor, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1982
Contributors offer the following suggestions: use the language experience approach with adult beginning readers, remediate adolescent reading attitudes via parents, force students to think through self-propelled reading lessons, and establish a teacher workshop using the participants' content area textbooks. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedBallash, Karen M. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes the successful use of Reading Recovery paired with authentic, high interest reading and the Language Experience Approach with a high school remedial reader. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedRigg, Pat; Kazemek, Francis E. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that using the adult learner's needs and interests to choose individual reading material makes better sense than using inappropriate workbooks and other commercial literacy materials, and offers six criteria for evaluating materials. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Needs, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedMcWilliams, Lana; Smith, Dennie L. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes a version of language experience with adolescents that has students write about personal problems and dilemmas they have faced. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDavidson, Jane L.; Wheat, Thomas E. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Discusses illiterate and semiliterate adults who want to become literate to enjoy a more satisfactory quality of life. Describes their life experiences and provides examples of effective instruction methods based on the language experience approach, including dictation, word banks, journal writing, individualized and assisted reading, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Illiteracy
Peer reviewedLindsey, Jimmy D.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes two word-recognition activities and a cross-age tutoring program that have proven successful in developing poor readers' sight vocabulary. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Kinesthetic Methods, Language Experience Approach, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedSharp, Sidney J. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Relates the author's experiences using the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and computers with content area materials to teach middle school remedial reading students. Lists nine goals that can be reached by conjoining LEA and content area materials. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Junior High Schools, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedWeibel, Marguerite Crowley – Journal of Reading, 1983
Describes public library materials appropriate for adult literacy students and suggests methods of incorporating them into instruction. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Fiction, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedEldridge, Bruce H. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains six instructional components, based on a psycholinguistic view of reading, for teaching the adolescent disabled reader to read. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Experience Approach
