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Brand, Shirley – Academic Therapy, 1989
A whole language approach to learning can be successfully used with children with learning disabilities. The approach can alleviate difficulties children have with memory and cognitive problems, anxiety, self-esteem, locus of control, and attentional deficit. Procedures are outlined for implementation of the whole language approach in resource…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
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Eldridge, Bruce H. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains six instructional components, based on a psycholinguistic view of reading, for teaching the adolescent disabled reader to read. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Experience Approach
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Douville, Patricia – Preventing School Failure, 2000
This article discusses how parents can use the Language Experience Approach and Scaffolded Writing in the home environment to teach their children literacy skills and to prevent school failure. The benefits of parent involvement in influencing the quality and quantity of a child's literacy experiences is stressed. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Environment, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
Bryant, N. Dale; And Others – 1979
This research review on basic reading skills begins with an historical perspective on reading methods, followed by an overview of reading instruction methods for the general population. Research findings are presented on several instructional methods, including phonetic, linguistic, artificial orthography, basal reading, and language experience…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Smith, Margaret; Dalheim, Zoe – 1990
Project READ had a two-fold purpose: to improve the reading levels of diagnosed learning disabled adults, and to investigate the following research questions: (1) which of three teaching approaches selected for this study is most effective for reading disabled adults? (2) what is effective assessment? and (3) how may the impact of reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Dyslexia
Peryon, Charleen D., Ed. – 1981
Drawn from an annual symposium held at the University of Guam to recognize and encourage scholarly activities of graduate students in the reading education department and to promote continued interdepartmental dialogue on the teaching of reading, the nine papers in this compilation deal with various approaches to reading instruction. Topics…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
Ramsey, Wallace – 1985
A whole language approach is emphasized in the reading clinic at the University of Missouri (St. Louis) because disabled readers need to practice their skills simultaneously in speaking, listening, and reading. At the clinic, teachers are encouraged to learn and use several approaches to teaching reading. However, the language experience approach…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – 1974
The thirty-five papers in this volume were presented on the theme "Reading--Update: Ideals to Reality." The keynote address, delivered by Leland L. Medsker, was entitled "Postsecondary Education in the Decade Ahead." Titles of other papers include "Characteristics of Community College Students,""A Key to Unlock…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
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Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes the following teaching ideas: note writing; books supplementing a unit on measuring; parents' activities calendars; quick phonics inventory; map reading; language experience chart stories; predicting activities with titles; summer mail for learning disabled students; role playing; teaching guides for novels; sentence transformation; and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1983
The continuing theme of these conferences is: "Reading, the Process of Creating Meaning for Sensed Stimuli." The special theme of this 1983 anniversary conference is: "Reading Reading: 50th Anniversary Perspectives." The proceedings in this yearbook reflect the retrospective and prospective emphasis of the special theme.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education