Advocates a psycholinguistic view of the reading process and a language experience approach to reading instruction. Offers suggestions to improve students' reading performance. (FL)

Argues that the language experience approach is a good technique to use to teach reading to deaf and hearing impaired children, but that the rationale for the technique presented by Russell G. Stauffer is misleading in regard to the way such children learn. (Author/FL)

Reported by the child's teacher is the successful use of a language experience approach to teach reading to an extremely shy second-grade girl with few prereading skills. (DB)

Provides practical suggestions for teachers to integrate cultural pluralism in three reading strategies: (1) reading workshops; (2) writing workshops; (3) language experience approaches that make a valuable contribution to students of all cultural backgrounds. (Author/VWL)

Suggests that the language experience approach combined with the cloze procedure is a useful technique in working with reading disabled students. (RB)

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…

An organic approach to the teaching of reading emphasizes the selection of vocabulary from the experiential background of the child. (JH)

Explores two factors which can help teachers in guiding students who have difficulty reading their textbooks--understanding the reasons why students have problems and finding some way to teach the subject content and reading at the same time. (JM)

Offers a description and a rationale for language experience learning, then presents an explanation of current developments and factors influencing the implementation of language experience programs. (FL)

Outlines a five-day sequence for implementing the language experience approach (LEA) and addresses questions commonly asked by primary grade teachers after they have tried to use LEA to teach reading. (FL)

Analyzes six ideas related to language experience intended to improve the teaching of reading. (RB)

Response to a critique on author's Language in Use" approach to exploring the nature and function of language in the classroom. (MB)