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Peer reviewedStauffer, Russell G. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Intellectual Development, Language Experience Approach, Psychological Characteristics
Peer reviewedWheat, Thomas E.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1979
Teachers aware of the value of each child's language can do much to prevent initial reading difficulties among those who speak nonstandard dialects. (DD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Nonstandard Dialects, Primary Education
Peer reviewedRennick, Larry W.; Williams, Karen M. – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes how using a flashlight to read language experience chart stories can provide a concrete way to build a foundation for many emergent reader concepts, such as directionality. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedRoss, Ramon Royal – Reading Teacher, 1973
Discusses the effectiveness of story telling as a means of teaching beginning reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Listening
Peer reviewedTway, Eileen – Reading Teacher, 1973
Recommends the association of teachers and children in teacher education courses to get to know each other by working together, not as teachers and pupils, but as learners together. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, 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
Peer reviewedPienaar, Peter T. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Describes and evaluates "Breakthrough to Literacy," a beginning reading scheme based on the language experience approach and launched in Saskatoon, Canada schools in 1974. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
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 reviewedMickelson, Norma I. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 4, Language Experience Approach
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
Peer reviewedKirkland, Eleanor R. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Discusses the relationship of cognitive development or thinking skills to language development and beginning reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHenderson, Edmund H. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Group Instruction, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1981
Contains contributions from five educators concerning the following topics: (1) the "Super Sounder" system of presenting phonics instruction to beginning readers, (2) teaching vocabulary in a multigrade classroom, (3) language experience and basal readers, (4) pacing as a key to successful drill work, and (5) creative ways to encourage reading.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Multigraded Classes
Peer reviewedWilson, Lorraine – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes an experience based reading program developed in Melbourne, Australia, for low-income and immigrant children and a series of books to be published which are based on this program. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedFeeley, Joan T. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Compares bilingual reading instruction in Puerto Rico with that on the mainland, commending the emphasis given in Puerto Rico on comprehension as opposed to the emphasis given to decoding on the mainland. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, English (Second Language)
