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Peer reviewedBernstein, Edna – Language Arts, 1976
An organic approach to the teaching of reading emphasizes the selection of vocabulary from the experiential background of the child. (JH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Girdon, Mary Bowers – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Language Experience Approach, Reading Difficulty, Reading Failure
Download full textHart, Margaret – 1982
Based on the theory that learning takes place if the learner is able to relate new knowledge to something already known, the course of study described in this booklet consists of recording stories dictated by individual students and using these stories as a basis for teaching reading and creative writing to students from preschool through adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach
Rubin, Andee; Gentner, Dedre – 1979
The Story Maker is a teaching device that allows children to create stories by choosing options from a set of already-written story segments. This device (1) provides an active language experience that allows children to construct stories easily; (2) demonstrates the consequences of choosing different ways for a story to proceed; (3) avoids the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Experience Approach
Stauffer, Russell G. – 1970
A practical and detailed account of how the language-experience approach to reading instruction functions is presented. The importance of the bond between thought, word, and deed and reading, writing, and school learning is emphasized, The included chapters describe the function of dictated experience stories, building a word bank, creative…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Experience Charts, Group Instruction
Veatch, Jeannette; And Others – 1973
The classroom use of the key vocabulary, developed by Sylvia Ashton-Warner as a reading approach--rather than as a reading method--which utilizes the child's actual experience, is the major concern of this book. Materials used and tested for a number of years present examples, outlines, and various methods for eliciting children's dramas through…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childhood Interests, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Cramer, Ronald L. – Elem Engl, 1970
Reviewed in a following article by E. Hugh Rudorf, "Review of 'An Investigation of First-Grade Spelling Achievement' by R. L. Cramer, pp. 238-40. (SW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Educational Research
Reading Newsreport, 1971
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Language Experience Approach
Biberstine, Richard D. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities
Hall, MaryAnne – 1976
The central focus of this second edition is the same as that of the first edition: to describe the language-experience approach and to identify instructional practices which can be followed to teach reading with this approach. In addition, the volume expands the theoretical foundations of language-experience communication, extends the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Stauffer, Russell G.; Hammond, W. Dorsey – 1968
A comparison of the effects of a Language Arts Approach and a Basic Reader Approach when extended from grades 1 and 2 and applied in 22 third-grade classrooms is presented. The Language Arts or Language Experience Approach utilized children's oral language facility and experiences and their creative writing facility in the development of reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Language Experience Approach, Oral Reading
PDF pending restorationPowers, Meredith M.; Bobys, Aline R. – 1978
To make sense of unknown words encountered in their reading, children must relate what they read to their prior knowledge. It is important to use children's language in early reading instruction, through the use of language experience stories that provide children with a natural transition from oral to written language. Nursery rhymes may also be…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Writing, Independent Reading, Language Experience Approach
