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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
Cramer, Ronald Lee – 1968
The effect of two methods of reading instruction on the spelling achievement of first-grade students was investigated. Ten first-grade classes received reading instruction utilizing the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and 11 received instruction utilizing the Basal Reader Approach (BRA). One spelling list of 40 phonologically regular words and…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Swanson, Beverly B. – 1981
Thirty-three first grade classrooms in Georgia were observed to determine the state of language experience instruction and to examine whether such instruction makes a difference in students' awareness of the reading purpose, their knowledge of instructional terminology, their reading attitudes, and their reading achievement. The Allen Level of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
Stauffer, Russell G. – Elementary English, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Experiential Learning, Grade 1

Allen, Elizabeth G.; Laminack, Lester L. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Provides ideas for implementing the language experience approach with first-grade students. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities
HARRIS, ALBERT J.; SERWER, BLANCHE L. – 1966
THE RESULTS OF A STUDY OF THE TIME ALLOCATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE ARTS BY 48 TEACHERS OF 1,600 FIRST-GRADE DISADVANTAGED URBAN CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY ARE REPORTED. TWELVE CLASSES EACH WERE ASSIGNED TO ONE OF FOUR METHODS USED IN THE CRAFT PROJECT (COMPARING READING APPROACHES TO FIRST-GRADE TEACHING WITH EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
Cramer, Ronald L. – Elem Engl, 1970
Reviewed in a following article by E. Hugh Rudorf, "Review of 'An Investigation of First-Grade Spelling Achievement' by R. L. Cramer, pp. 238-40. (SW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Educational Research

Powers, Anne – Reading Teacher, 1981
Describes a program in which first-grade minority group children wrote the books to stock a classroom library. (FL)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Instructional Materials, Language Experience Approach, Minority Group Children
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Patterson, Retie Y. – 1992
The practicum reported in this paper addressed the high percentage of children receiving below average grades in an average first grade reading comprehension class by implementing an integrated approach to reading. Various screening devices, a survey of kindergarten teachers, the Dolch Basic Sight Word Test, the Analytical Reading Inventory (Woods…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 1
Feeley, Joan T. – 1980
This paper describes a child-centered first grade classroom where learning to read is viewed as a natural step in the language acquisition process. Discussed in detail are methods of individualizing instruction for four particular children, the use of basal readers, daily writing activities using the Language Experience Approach, and both group…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Programs, Grade 1, Individualized Instruction
Van Allen, Roach – 1965
The importance of building positive attitudes and habits in developing successful reading experiences is discussed. In order to have positive attitudes toward himself and toward his reading, the child must acquire basic concepts about language and its relation to himself. Among these concepts are (1) I can talk about what I think about, (2) what I…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Elementary Schools, Grade 1
Thomas, Sharon K. – 1980
A study investigated reading performance in one dimension of the language experience approach--the dictation of a story to accompany a wordless picture book. A miscue analysis procedure was used to describe the strategies and miscues evidenced by eight first grade beginning readers while reading a basal text story and while reading a dictated…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach
Dykstra, Robert – 1970
The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Riendeau, Betty A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine and to interpret the effect of two differing approaches to reading instruction on the self-social concepts of first grade children. The concepts analyzed were self-esteem; social interest; individuation; complexity; realism; identifications with mother, father, teacher, and friend; and preferences for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1