This article examines a collaborative study that two teacher educators conducted across two sites. Participants included teacher candidates implementing a digital language experience approach project with elementary learners. The teacher candidates collaborated across sites, building joint wikis to examine their processes and products. The wikis…

This article describes two educational settings in Nigeria where teachers adapted a language experience approach for reading and writing instruction. The first setting is a professional development workshop for public school teachers of students in grades 1-6. The second setting includes two groups of students with special needs: a grade 6 class…

Describes the difficulties children face in learning the special language used to talk about reading and its relation to speech. (DD)

Compares the whole-language approach to the language experience approach. Notes that the major criticisms cited of language experience appear to be cited of whole language. Suggests that the tenets of whole language fit into preparing for the year 2000 and discusses the survival of the movement in relation to teacher preparation. (RS)

The paper describes the enactive method, an alternative approach to introducing and teaching reading to young hearing impaired children. The method actively involves the child as a processor of the material rather than as a passive consumer. The approach is established for a short period of time each day until the student outgrows its original…

An annotated bibliography of 11 books to help teachers use the language experience approach to teach reading. (DD)

Presents an interview with Dr. Roach van Allen in which he describes how he became involved in education, who influenced him professionally, his proudest accomplishments (a theoretical model for a language experience program), what he sees as the current problems in reading education, and what he sees in the future. (RS)

Describes the use of the language experience approach (LEA) and semantic mapping strategies with three seven-year-old boys who were nonreaders. Finds the use of mapping strategies with LEA was successful when children had difficulty structuring and organizing their own stories. (MG)

Presents techniques for improving reading instruction for Chicano students. (WR)

Discusses the effectiveness of story telling as a means of teaching beginning reading. (RB)

A bibliography of journal articles related to language experience as an alternative to traditional methods of teaching reading. (HTH)

A case study of a language confused, bilingual, educable mentally retarded child is presented to illustrate the array of factors involved in teaching limited English proficient exceptional children. A brief summary and list of recommendations by the psychologist note the child's social, economic, and cultural background. Pinpointed are the…

Reviews recent ERIC resources for creating integrated learning environments. (DD)

Presents the language experience approach (LEA) as a supplement to and enrichment of the more formal approaches to reading instruction. Discusses four obstacles to implementation of LEA and describes the physical environment approach to it. (FL)