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Peer reviewedPadak, Nancy D. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes several language experience activities involving sports to create meaningful and motivating learning experiences for primary students. Urges educators to provide activities based on students' interests to provide frameworks for the integration of reading, writing, and learning. (MG)
Descriptors: Athletics, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities, Learning Experience
Peer reviewedEwoldt, Carolyn; Hammermeister, Frieda – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
The Language Experience Approach (LEA) creates reading materials and writing opportunities through integrated use of the learner's language and experience. Individualized LEA involving a "dictation" approach (child dictates experience; teacher records and reads back experience) is beneficial for hearing-impaired students in terms of increased…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Experience Approach, Reading Improvement
Sauve, Virginia – TESL Talk, 1988
Considers approaches to English-as-a-second-language instruction that utilize or encourage the use of story-telling to help participants share and grow, and use language, beyond the limits of pre-set, traditional curriculum. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Experience Approach, Language Skills
Cohn, Regina L. – 1981
The language experience approach (LEA) is a means of using the knowledge of language and one's life experiences to create materials for reading and thoughtful consideration. Therefore, LEA seems to be a viable approach to use both with students who are not familiar with the language used or experiences described in a textbook and with older…
Descriptors: Class Activities, High Schools, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction
Armington, David – 1987
This book describes the special way one teacher, Jeanette Amidon, approaches children's thinking, with a particular focus on reading and writing instruction. The root value of her first-grade classroom in Massachusetts is respect for children's ideas, with the children's art and writing as visible signs of the teacher's respect for their thinking.…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Childrens Writing, Classroom Environment, Creative Development
