Using language experience stories

Once you have created a language experience story, you can use it in many ways.

• Read a story to the learners several times during the week for review and reinforcement.
• Make a copy of the language experience story on a large poster for use in the class.
• Make copies of the story for the following people or for locations where the stories will be available for reading.
  • Each learner
  • The classroom
  • The library
• Make a book of stories.
  • Work together to edit, print, and produce the book.
  • Use a collection of one person's stories or of the work of many.
• Make sentence or word cards for learners to match to the story.
• Create a fill-in-the-blanks exercise with the story text.

• Task module: Using language experience stories
• In 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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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