The language experience approach (LEA) to reading instruction uses learner-dictated passages to foster reading development. In this study, researchers explored LEA instruction for English learners with exceptional needs that were supported by voice typing, word prediction, and screen reading tools. A multiple baseline design was used to…

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…

Children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) are particularly vulnerable for later reading problems. This article describes the use of experience books, associated with the Language Experience Approach (LEA), as a motivating and linguistically appropriate literacy tool for young children who are DHH. The authors explain how remediation…

Thirty-three first grade classrooms in Georgia were observed to determine the state of language experience instruction and to examine whether such instruction makes a difference in students' awareness of the reading purpose, their knowledge of instructional terminology, their reading attitudes, and their reading achievement. The Allen Level of…

Part 1 of this report reviewed the three week teacher-training institute held at the University of Delaware during July and August 1971. Part 2 reviews some of the followup strategies used and demonstrated throughout Federal Region 3 over the past year (July 1971 to July 1972). Two model teaching demonstrations were developed and used throughout…

Describes a modified language experience approach which was successful in developing reading skills in prelingually, profoundly deaf students. (EKN)

This evaluation was undertaken in an effort to provide data concerning the effectiveness of the Tucson Early Education Model, a Follow Through Model sponsor and reading instruction program which advocates the language experience approach. Seventy-three children were tested according to a miscue analysis model, in order to identify those…

This paper describes and illustrates an approach to reading which combines the language experience approach (LEA) and imaginative play. The LEA and the components of the lesson are briefly reviewed. Imaginative play and its descriptive components are identified and explained. The procedure for combining the two elements is roughly as follows: The…

Survey responses from 478 programs serving about 26,000 hearing impaired students indicated: the basal reading approach is used more than the language experience approach; the basal program, "Reading Milestones'" is the most frequent choice at all instructional levels; and only one-fourth of programs view standardized reading achievement tests as…

Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)

A study explored the effects of an expanded Language Experience Approach (LEA) on listening comprehension skills of kindergarteners. During a 2-year period, two exerpiments were conducted with different groups of kindergarteners. The second experiment replicated the first experiment and was conducted to determine if an expanded LEA would produce…

A study examined two contexts in teaching a language experience approach (LEA) reading lesson to kindergarten children. The five children--Black, Hispanic, and White students of varying ability levels--first developed a group story of their own using the Van Allen language experience approach. The teacher recorded the story, and the students wrote…

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…

A study was conducted to observe and describe two reading instruction procedures stemming from two different theoretical influences. Two teachers, one skills and one whole language oriented, were selected on the basis of peer and administrator recommendation, among other qualifications. Their stated instructional base and theoretical orientations…

The objectives of this teacher-training institute were to determine the specific reading and learning needs, characteristics, and problems of underachieving adults; to acquaint inservice adult basic education teachers and paraprofessionals with an eclectic variety of reading, writing, and study techniques that can be used with underachieving…