Using a language experience approach activity

In many preliterate societies, emergent readers need to learn that language can be written and that writing is a way of communicating.

In the language experience approach, the teacher writes down what a learner says and then reads it back to help develop the concept of words in print.

• Do a language experience approach activity with the learners.
• Create a language experience story with them.
• Use language experience stories for other activities.

• Borneman 1994
• Embrey 1975
• Froese 1991
• Goddard 1974
• Isidro 1985
• Nessel and Jones 1981
• Thorn 1969
• McCormick 1988
• Weaver 1990

• Task module: Using a language experience approach activity
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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