The study found that the children who were reading using an experience story approach had a sight vocabulary 22 percent greater than the basal group readers. (JH)

Discusses the question and myth of educational relevance. (Author)

Describes program combining language experience approach, formal readiness material, linguistic and phonetic readers, and identity" readers. (SP)

Study comparing two approaches conducted in the Kindergarten classes in Waterville, Maine. (MB)

An eclectic language arts program which stresses the use of personal experiences in developing language abilities may be the best approach to the development of self identity. (JH)

In British primary schools reading and language skills are taught requiring the active involvement of the children in such activities as camping trips which result in student developed reading and writing materials. (JH)

A review of the research stresses the importance of language skills to beginning reading. (JH)

Presents the results of several studies dealing with dialect differences and offers a rationale for using the language experience approach for teaching dialectically different black children. (TO)

Examines the relative merits of the language experience approach, the basal reader approach, and the individualized reading approach for beginning reading instruction, concluding that individualized reading has the advantage of fitting the needs of the student. (RB)

Article describes a new approach to the instruction of beginning reading. It is followed by a review of books and articles to aid in using this new approach. (MR)