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Hall, Susan E. M. – Insights into Open Education, 1986
Using student dictated stories to create class books is an exciting way to teach young children about books and writing. Children can thus use their own material as they learn to read, the books provide a class library, and writing through dictation allows young children to learn about reading and writing before they can read or write--even with…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Prereading Experience, Primary Education
Download full textGalloway, Elizabeth; Gray, Gordon – 1976
The language experience approach to teaching beginning reading uses a child's own language and experiences as the basis for the first reading material or lessons. The approach integrates the language arts skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The steps suggested for a teacher to follow in utilizing this approach are: (1) oral…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
Peer reviewedPienaar, Peter T. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Reports on some of the advantages--language creativity, applied phonics, and integrated skills--for the South African Indian children learning to read and write with the Language Experience Approach. (MB)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Experience Approach
Hall, MaryAnne – 1977
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,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach
Sulzby, Elizabeth – 1982
The product of a two-year study investigating the literacy behavior of nine kindergarten students and their classmates, this report first explains the impetus and the theoretical foundations for the investigation and describes its subjects and setting. It then presents the methodology and the data collected from several related studies: (1)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Kindergarten Children, Language Experience Approach
Bear, Donald R. – 1987
Designed to instruct adult literacy teachers in using Language-Experience and Oral History techniques and distributed statewide to teachers in Nevada, this manual presents reading materials, diagnostic packages, and guidelines for adult literacy program organization. The first of three chapters begins with an introduction to the manual, and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, Case Studies
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effects on self concept and reading achievement of an art program and an activity-based reading program; children's selection of trade books; two approaches…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Basic Reading
