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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
Ribowsky, Helene – 1985
A year-long, quasi-experimental study investigated the comparative effects of a whole language approach and a code emphasis approach upon the emergent literacy of 53 girls in two kindergarten classes in an all girls' parochial school in the Northeast. Subjects in the experimental class received instruction in Holdaway's Shared Book Experience…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Yellin, David – 1986
Spelling practices, processes, and implications can be analyzed in terms of three conceptual models: the bottom up, the top down, and the interactive compensatory model. Spelling instruction from post-colonial America into the 20th century reveals a preoccupation with the bottom up philosophy, which emphasized rules, word lists, and rote…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Educational History, Language Research, Linguistics
Courtault, Michel – 1989
The concept of "preliteracy" is important for adult literacy programs. All illiterate adults can undertake their initiation into the world of letters and figures provided they are strongly motivated to do so. Experiments on motivation indicate that literacy programs must respond at least to one essential need of the future literate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading
Bates, Clif – 1982
Cultural influences and the particular language needs of Eskimo children are considered, along with implications for curriculum and instruction. The Eskimos are of a culture and environment where there is little experience with the purpose of literacy and little exposure to reading and writing behavior, linguistic concepts, or language usage.…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Beginning Reading, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education
Download full textWarash, Barbara Gibson – 1984
The West Virginia University Child Development Laboratory has successfully used microcomputers as a complement to their language experience approach to teaching three- and four-year-old children. The computer acts as a motivational tool, and gives children the opportunity to produce perfectly typed pictures or letters. The first encounter a child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Acquisition
Burt, Andy; And Others – 1981
An extensive resource manual and teaching guide is presented for the kindergarten teacher in the early French immersion program. The first three chapters contain introductory material discussing the kindergarten child, this particular program, language development in kindergarten, and the role of the kindergarten teacher which is analagous to that…
Descriptors: Art Education, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Educational Objectives
