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Scouler, Mary – Australian Journal of Reading, 1979
Urges the use of the language experience approach to helping children learn to read and to write. Suggests some activities for starting the school year using this approach. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCombs, Martha – Reading Teacher, 1984
Proposes a variant of the language experience approach in which teachers provide simple models of repetitive sentences about an interesting object. (FL)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Readiness, Sentences
McCarthy, Marilyn – 1981
An annotated bibliography of materials on the language experience approach to reading instruction, prepared as part of a study to determine the effects of and methods for implementing this approach in primary classrooms, comprises the major portion of this document. The bibliography's 63 annotations are arranged in four categories: (1) the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Language Experience Approach, Literature Reviews, Primary Education
Peer reviewedFeeley, 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
Peer reviewedHoskisson, 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
Jones, Carroll J. – Academic Therapy, 1976
Reported by the child's teacher is the successful use of a language experience approach to teach reading to an extremely shy second-grade girl with few prereading skills. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education
Peer reviewedLopardo, Genevieve S. – Reading Teacher, 1975
Suggests that the language experience approach combined with the cloze procedure is a useful technique in working with reading disabled students. (RB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMallon, Barbara; Berglund, Roberta – Reading Teacher, 1984
Outlines a five-day sequence for implementing the language experience approach (LEA) and addresses questions commonly asked by primary grade teachers after they have tried to use LEA to teach reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHarris, Stephen G. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Analyzes six ideas related to language experience intended to improve the teaching of reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPast, Kay Cude; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1980
Describes a bilingual open classroom program for kindergarten children in which the classroom environment is rich with printed language and children are introduced to reading by an individualized system they both enjoy and profit from. Tells how children "write" books, how phonics is introduced, and how reading is incorporated in a variety of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Individualized Instruction, Kindergarten
Cathcart, Maureen – Elementary English, 1973
Examines the relative merits of the language experience approach, the basal reader approach, and the individualized reading approach for beginning reading instruction, concluding that individualized reading has the advantage of fitting the needs of the student. (RB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedCunningham, Patricia – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggests a variation on the language experience approach designed for groups of nonverbal children. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach, Language Handicaps
Karch, Barbara – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
A kindergarten teacher recounts her classroom experience introducing children to reading via the whole language approach, which is based on the belief that children learn to read and write naturally by listening, watching, speaking, and writing. Classroom photographs and samples of student work illustrate the article. (DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
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
Spann, Mary Beth – Instructor, 1992
Discusses the use of invented spelling to help kindergarten students learn to spell. It provides a natural foundation for building spelling abilities by making students think about words and generate new knowledge. Activities are suggested and guidelines are presented for a developmentally sensitive spelling program. (SM)
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education
