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Landis, David; Umolu, Joanne; Mancha, Sunday – Reading Teacher, 2010
This article describes two educational settings in Nigeria where teachers adapted a language experience approach for reading and writing instruction. The first setting is a professional development workshop for public school teachers of students in grades 1-6. The second setting includes two groups of students with special needs: a grade 6 class…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Public School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Mills, Pat – Journalism Educator, 1994
Maintains that, in teaching and in teaching writing, methods matter if they are organic methods that grow out of real-life experiences. Notes that in another sense, all that matters is getting both teacher and student to wake up to their own lives and to what they know, absolutely, within themselves. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Experience Approach
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Hoffman, Lauren P. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1991
The South Metropolitan Association Communication Development Program in Flossmoor, Illinois, developed a language-oriented program that improved reading and writing proficiency of students with communication disorders. The program involves development and reading of language experience stories, role playing, vocabulary development, and other…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Experience Approach
Lamb, Jane – Learning, 1984
A turn-of-the-century printing press motivates elementary students to write. Children write, edit, and print their own stories on the Greenwood School Press. This self-supporting enterprise introduces children to various aspects of writing and producing literature. (DF)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Language Arts
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Alwood, Etta Jo – English Journal, 1984
Establishes the value of teachers attending writers' workshops and indicates how teachers can stimulate student writing by having them respond to thematically selected readings from literature. (CRH)
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Tutolo, Daniel – 1980
Teaching practices in Italy, where teachers combine three different methods for teaching reading, may provide insight into ways to improve methodologies in the United States. The first method is the natural method, which, unlike American methods, teaches reading and writing simultaneously with the emphasis on writing. The teacher writes as…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
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Ewoldt, Carolyn; Hammermeister, Frieda – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
The Language Experience Approach (LEA) creates reading materials and writing opportunities through integrated use of the learner's language and experience. Individualized LEA involving a "dictation" approach (child dictates experience; teacher records and reads back experience) is beneficial for hearing-impaired students in terms of increased…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Experience Approach, Reading Improvement
Sauve, Virginia – TESL Talk, 1988
Considers approaches to English-as-a-second-language instruction that utilize or encourage the use of story-telling to help participants share and grow, and use language, beyond the limits of pre-set, traditional curriculum. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Experience Approach, Language Skills
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Franklin, Elizabeth A. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1992
The use of the language experience approach to teach readiness and beginning reading and writing skills in preschool programs is explored. The value of this holistic approach is illustrated with a case study of a preschool child with a severe expressive language delay and phonological disorder. (DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Expressive Language, Language Experience Approach
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Nower, Betty – Volta Review, 1991
This paper uses examples of the writing of profoundly hearing-impaired high school students and transcripts of teacher-student dialog to illustrate the evolution of thought in student writing. The development of a language arts curriculum that permitted students to explore, expand, and experience literary events is also described. (JDD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Deafness, Experiential Learning, High Schools
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Temple, Charles; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1994
Describes the "Global Method" of Celestin Freinet, a French educator whose teaching methods (similar to language experience, writing process approach, and whole language) are used by teachers in Europe. Offers excerpts of Freinet's ideas on democratic pedagogy, having children write their own books, teaching writing, moral civic…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Clague-Tweet, Claudia – 1973
Applicable to kindergarten through grade 12, the individualized Language Arts composition program is based upon actual student experiences. Once student writing samples have been plotted on a diagnostic grid, the program's manual provides teachers with specific methods for meeting students' needs. Uniting cognitive, affective, and creative…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach
Cohn, Regina L. – 1981
The language experience approach (LEA) is a means of using the knowledge of language and one's life experiences to create materials for reading and thoughtful consideration. Therefore, LEA seems to be a viable approach to use both with students who are not familiar with the language used or experiences described in a textbook and with older…
Descriptors: Class Activities, High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
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Moran, Mary Ross – Exceptional Children, 1988
This paper describes a program that systematically increases the composition productivity of disabled students who are inexperienced writers. Program features include building discourse units, using student-generated language, and incorporating self-evaluation. Procedures for small group instruction focus on constructing and testing clauses,…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach
Butler, Shelley – 1991
This handbook was created through participatory research between November 1989 and July 1990. It includes ideas, experiences, and stories contributed by learners, tutors, teachers, and organizers at St. Christopher House, a group home for people with disabilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The handbook contains five sections: (1) who are the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Disabilities
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