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Download full textTortelli, James P. – 1976
This paper discusses six instructional techniques for strengthening strategies of comprehending written language: the language experience approach to develop awareness of the sensible nature of language; story-division to strengthen semantic prediction; reader-illustrations to develop thought units; paragraph-analysis to reduce uncertainty;…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Strategies, Language Experience Approach, Reading Comprehension
Rowe, Elise Murphy – 1982
Noting that comprehension studies have stressed the importance of determining the main idea of reading instruction, this paper offers a teaching strategy--the Modified Language Experience Method--that has proven successful in teaching main ideas to secondary school students. The paper first compares the strategy, which begins with the general…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Experience Approach, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Dilena, Mike – 1977
Teachers can encourage students to see reading as meaning-making in a number of ways. Context support methods begin by ensuring that the context is already familiar to students so that word recognition is made easier. Language experience approaches encourage children to learn to read by first reading what they have produced. Real books, as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Literature Appreciation, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHacker, Charles J. – Language Arts, 1980
Discusses the effect of previous knowledge on reading comprehension. Suggests reading instruction methods that evoke the readers' experiences, or schemata, relevant to the material. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Prior Learning
Merryman, Milisande Louise – 1973
This study investigated the effect on the reading comprehension of preschool children of matching syntactic patterns in written materials to patterns in their level of language acquisition. It also examined whether a language experience method or a prescribed vocabulary method had different effects on the results. Eighty randomly selected subjects…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedKinney, Martha A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Shows how the language experience approach is a useful tool in teaching expository prose structure to elementary school students. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedFerguson, Anne M.; Fairburn, Jo – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedWangberg, Elaine G. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Lists suggestions for implementing a reading-for-meaning instructional approach that focuses on the development and comprehension of language. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Learning Theories, Primary Education
Peer reviewedRittenhouse, Robert K.; Freeman, Shirley – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1991
A model is offered for building the vocabulary skills of students with deafness or hearing impairments. The model is based on Piaget's theoretical concepts of assimilation and accommodation. The model presents six sequenced steps for learning new vocabulary and suggests using the Language Experience approach, environmental print, predictable…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Experience Approach, Models
Gatherer, W. A. – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1978
Recommendations of an official report have generated a new consciousness in British schools of the importance of language in education. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Ability
Peer reviewedGrabe, Mark; Grabe, Cindy – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Mathematics Instruction
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Biberstine, Richard D. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedRakes, Tom – Reading Horizons, 1972
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedWardhaugh, Ronald – Language Learning, 1971
Research funded by a contract from the U.S. Office of Education to Rutgers University. (DS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Language Experience Approach, Language Research, Learning Theories
