Proposes the "say and write" method and the directed sentence reading method as ways of using language experience stories to develop children's sight vocabulary. (FL)

Advocates a psycholinguistic view of the reading process and a language experience approach to reading instruction. Offers suggestions to improve students' reading performance. (FL)

A language experience approach to teaching reading is a multifaceted program that encompasses more than just self-expression. (Author/JM)

Argues that the language experience approach is a good technique to use to teach reading to deaf and hearing impaired children, but that the rationale for the technique presented by Russell G. Stauffer is misleading in regard to the way such children learn. (Author/FL)

Working with dictated stories helps young hearing-impaired children improve their ability to communicate. (DD)

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)

Contends that not all children benefit from established literacy activities in ways that teachers expect and that computer technologies are not routinely incorporated into classroom literacy activities. Reveals, through a case study, that young children of different ability levels have unique occasions for literacy learning when a Language…

Provides practical suggestions for teachers to integrate cultural pluralism in three reading strategies: (1) reading workshops; (2) writing workshops; (3) language experience approaches that make a valuable contribution to students of all cultural backgrounds. (Author/VWL)

Because both whole language and traditional skill-based instruction have strengths, educators should use a combined approach that includes direct instruction in phonics and reading comprehension skills along with whole language instruction. (Author/TE)

Investigates how the perspectives of today's Leaders compare to the views of prominent Reading Specialists of the past by: (1) comparing how Specialists and Leaders addressed the three major themes of neo-traditional instruction, fadism and ideological debates, and professional development; and (2) noting issues ignored or downplayed by both…

Reviews the philosophy of the language experience approach to reading instruction and presents a condensation of a lesson that was developed in a basic reading class. (RB)

Suggests that the language experience approach combined with the cloze procedure is a useful technique in working with reading disabled students. (RB)

Values clarification strategies or activities in which children explore, list, order, and code their experiences and thoughts, combined with language experience techniques, can provide meaningful reading situations. Values strategies function as affective mobilizers to bring a child's attitudes and emotions into interaction with learning…

This paper discusses six instructional techniques for strengthening strategies of comprehending written language: the language experience approach to develop awareness of the sensible nature of language; story-division to strengthen semantic prediction; reader-illustrations to develop thought units; paragraph-analysis to reduce uncertainty;…

Of 10 participating inner-city school teachers, five used a modified basal series, and five used the language experience approach for reading instruction. Monthly training sessions were held, and the Medley and Smith's Observation Scale and Rating-Reading was used to lend objectivity to the monthly observations of each teacher. The following…