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Peer reviewedNower, 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
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
Download full textWarash, Bobbie Gibson; Workman, Melissa – 1992
Over the past several years, teachers at the West Virginia University Child Development Laboratory have used the language experience approach to develop the literacy skills of young children. To increase child involvement, a scrapbook project for 4-year-olds was conducted each Wednesday for 1 academic year. Each child received a scrapbook and…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Dramatic Play
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1985
Project PROUD (People Reading Their Own Unique Dictation) was designed to focus on the problems associated with book-centered, one-to-one tutoring to help adults learn to read. The problems that the project sought to eliminate were uninteresting, nonpertinent materials; focus on single skills rather than reading as communication; lack of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Illiteracy
Peer reviewedMoran, 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
Oxendine, Linda – 1989
A second grade teacher in a rural Appalachian school draws heavily on familiar regional literature and the children's own rich mountain heritage and culture to teach reading to her students, covering the required basal readings in only one day per week. Students use the basals on Mondays and retell the texts on paper. They spend the rest of the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Class Activities
