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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
Norris, Janet A. – Academic Therapy, 1989
Spelling should be recognized as a developmental process that is child-initiated and discovery-based. Through use of an integrated whole language approach, children can be provided with opportunities to acquire spelling as a natural language process by beginning at their own developmental level and refining their internal knowledge of word…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Experience Approach
Shepherd, Terry R.; Arthur, Beth – Academic Therapy, 1986
A modification of the language experience approach in which meaningful experiences form the basis for evoking language is illustrated with an autistic person. (CL)
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Jones, Carroll J. – Academic Therapy, 1976
Reported by the child's teacher is the successful use of a language experience approach to teach reading to an extremely shy second-grade girl with few prereading skills. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education
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
Ehrlich, Myrna – Academic Therapy, 1982
Minilessons are used in a reading clinic and in the classroom to determine if the reading disabled student is best able to learn new words through visual, auditory, or visual motor channels. Language experience stories are also generated along with a writing sample. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Modalities, Reading Centers
Brand, Shirley – Academic Therapy, 1989
A whole language approach to learning can be successfully used with children with learning disabilities. The approach can alleviate difficulties children have with memory and cognitive problems, anxiety, self-esteem, locus of control, and attentional deficit. Procedures are outlined for implementation of the whole language approach in resource…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
Hollingsworth, Paul M.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Academic Therapy, 1988
Use of the whole language theory can improve the reading and writing of the language-learning disabled. This paper describes resource room characteristics necessary to create a whole language-learning environment and outlines instructional practices consistent with whole language theory, such as reading aloud, language experience approach,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
