Uses the language experience approach with a state driver's manual to teach disabled adolescent readers and educable mentally retarded students. (RS)

"Animals" is a three-part lesson plan for young learners with a zoo animal theme. The first lesson is full of activities to describe animals, with Simon Says, guessing games, and learning stations. The second lesson is about desert animals, but other types of animals could be chosen depending on student interest. This lesson teaches…

Recounted by the teacher are psychological and academic benefits realized by a class of low achieving children when they dictated and illustrated booklets and read them to other classes. (DB)

Presents techniques for improving reading instruction for Chicano students. (WR)

Proposes a variant of the language experience approach in which teachers provide simple models of repetitive sentences about an interesting object. (FL)

Discusses the effectiveness of story telling as a means of teaching beginning reading. (RB)

The teacher must recognize the legitimacy of the dialect speaker's language by insuring that beginning reading materials accurately reflect the language and experience of the child. Each child should dictate and then read his own language. (Author)

A bibliography of journal articles related to language experience as an alternative to traditional methods of teaching reading. (HTH)

An annotated bibliography of materials on the language experience approach to reading instruction, prepared as part of a study to determine the effects of and methods for implementing this approach in primary classrooms, comprises the major portion of this document. The bibliography's 63 annotations are arranged in four categories: (1) the…

Reviews recent ERIC resources for creating integrated learning environments. (DD)

A modification of the language experience approach in which meaningful experiences form the basis for evoking language is illustrated with an autistic person. (CL)

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)