Embrey 1975

Embrey 1975

Reference
	Embrey, Virginia. 1975. "Experience charts: From pre-reading to reading." Notes on Literacy. (Republished in NOLSA 1979.) Interest level: lay specialist.

Summary
	Describes how students were prepared for reading a primer by experience charts. Wrote whole sentences from the students' experience on charts and then broke sentences into words, syllables, and letters.
	Pupils played with sentence parts and learned to recognize them. Explains uses for experience charts, recommends types of materials, and offers good format ideas with some teaching procedures and exercises for five days.

Evaluation
	Article is clear and helpful with a step-by-step description of how to use charts.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Embrey 1975
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): E
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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