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Peer reviewedWangberg, Elaine G. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Describes a pattern book activity that provides a means of introducing and reinforcing high frequency vocabulary within a language experience approach. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Scouler, Mary – Australian Journal of Reading, 1979
Urges the use of the language experience approach to helping children learn to read and to write. Suggests some activities for starting the school year using this approach. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedWheat, Thomas E.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1979
Teachers aware of the value of each child's language can do much to prevent initial reading difficulties among those who speak nonstandard dialects. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Nonstandard Dialects, Primary Education
Peer reviewedRennick, Larry W.; Williams, Karen M. – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes how using a flashlight to read language experience chart stories can provide a concrete way to build a foundation for many emergent reader concepts, such as directionality. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedCombs, Martha – Reading Teacher, 1984
Proposes a variant of the language experience approach in which teachers provide simple models of repetitive sentences about an interesting object. (FL)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Readiness, Sentences
McCarthy, Marilyn – 1981
An annotated bibliography of materials on the language experience approach to reading instruction, prepared as part of a study to determine the effects of and methods for implementing this approach in primary classrooms, comprises the major portion of this document. The bibliography's 63 annotations are arranged in four categories: (1) the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Language Experience Approach, Literature Reviews, Primary Education
Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1977
Discusses the difficulties encountered when teaching sound-symbol correspondences in beginning reading. (JM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics
Peer reviewedGrugeon, Elizabeth – English In Education, 1971
Author feels that, in the period between the child beginning to master the skill of reading and his becoming a confident, independent reader, it is important for the teacher to help in the selection of books for him. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedMcCormick, Sandra – Reading World, 1981
Describes a method for using children's own dictated stories for assessment purposes. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Methods, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
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 reviewedHoskisson, Kenneth – Reading Teacher, 1979
Responds to criticism about the method of "assisted reading" and clarifies the author's beliefs about using the method as the first method of instruction. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Phonics, Primary Education
Peer reviewedGold, Patricia Cohen – Reading Teacher, 1981
Proposes the "say and write" method and the directed sentence reading method as ways of using language experience stories to develop children's sight vocabulary. (FL)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
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
Peer reviewedLopardo, Genevieve S. – Reading Teacher, 1975
Suggests that the language experience approach combined with the cloze procedure is a useful technique in working with reading disabled students. (RB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMallon, Barbara; Berglund, Roberta – Reading Teacher, 1984
Outlines a five-day sequence for implementing the language experience approach (LEA) and addresses questions commonly asked by primary grade teachers after they have tried to use LEA to teach reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction
