The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a project in which two college instructors established a model open classroom in an elementary school during one school year. Primary-grade children participated in a wide variety of activities in the classroom and were taught by means of a language experience approach in which they talked…

This manual outlines the procedures necessary for successful implementation of the Project READ-WRITE program. Two components are emphasized: the area of administration, supervision, and coordination; and the area of inservice training. Project READ-WRITE is described as a basic skills program in reading and related language arts designed to use…

A comparison of the effects of a Language Arts Approach and a Basic Reader Approach when extended from grades 1 and 2 and applied in 22 third-grade classrooms is presented. The Language Arts or Language Experience Approach utilized children's oral language facility and experiences and their creative writing facility in the development of reading…

This book reviews the research literature relevant to the language experience approach to the teaching of reading, in which instruction is based upon the use of reading materials created by writing down children's spoken language. The first major section provides a narrative review of the research studies, organized, for the most part,…

A study compared the effectiveness of intensive phonics instruction (a combination of the Distar and Lippincott methods) with a language experience approach (Success in Reading program) in the first and second grades. Subjects, 48 first and second grade students in the Hillsboro School District in Oregon, were divided into two groups (matched…