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Jozwik, Sara; Mustian, April L. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
The language experience approach (LEA) to reading instruction uses learner-dictated passages to foster reading development. In this study, researchers explored LEA instruction for English learners with exceptional needs that were supported by voice typing, word prediction, and screen reading tools. A multiple baseline design was used to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Marinak, Barbara A.; Strickland, Martha J.; Keat, Jane Blakely – Young Children, 2010
This article describes collaboration between three university professors and six preschool teachers who used photo-narration and the Language Experience Approach to support the language development of young children. For more than a century, educators have used children's personal experiences as a basis for language and literacy instruction. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Language Enrichment, Reading Instruction
Landis, David; Umolu, Joanne; Mancha, Sunday – Reading Teacher, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Public School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Grade 7

Wangberg, 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

Wheat, 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

Searfoss, Lyndon; Jerrolds, Bob W. – Reading Psychology, 1989
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)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interviews, Language Experience Approach, Models

White, David E. – Language Arts, 1980
A bibliography of journal articles related to language experience as an alternative to traditional methods of teaching reading. (HTH)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Brehaut, Loreen – Good Practice in Australian Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1994
Describes an interactive method of teaching reading that can be adapted to students' needs, skills, experience, and culture. Shows how the method develops phonological awareness and builds on skills adults already have, such as manual dexterity, visual analysis, and observation. (SK)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Language Experience Approach, Literacy Education, Males

Kapel, Marilyn B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1985
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)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach

McCormick, 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
Rothman, Sheldon L. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Discusses the language experience approach to remedial reading as a method to move the high school student with poor reading skills away from instructional techniques with which the student has experienced difficulty and into a no-fail reading situation. (HTH)
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction

Feeley, 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

Hoskisson, 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

Hall, MaryAnne – Language Arts, 1979
Establishes five premises on which language-centered reading is based and makes five recommendations for language-centered reading instruction. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach

Shuman, R. Baird; Cunningham, Patricia M. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction