New Teacher Academy Far West GREAT Center

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New Teacher AcademyFar West GREAT Center

• March 4, 2006
• Presenter Barbara Baird
• 915.831.5105
• BBaird_at_elp.rr.com

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Language Experience Approach

• Teaches reading and writing skills by
  capitalizing on students interests, language,
  and knowledge of the world
• LEA fosters language development by emphasizing
  understanding and control over language

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Language Experience Approach

• Builds basic language skills as personal
  experiences are transcribed and become reading
  material
• The basic procedure is to obtain a dictated story
  and develop instructional materials and
  skill-training activities related to the story
• Links spoken and written language

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Language Experience Approach

• Students dictate stories and accounts based on
  their experiences
• These materials are used for skill development
• Reinforce sight vocabulary
• Use word-analysis
• Develop reading comprehension

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Language Experience Approach

• 4 basic steps
• Prepare for dictation by discussing an event or
  shared experience
• Take dictation
• Read the story
• Conduct immediate follow-up activities to develop
  basic skills

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Language Experience Approach

• During dictation
• Record each students statement repeating the
  words while writing them down
• Include commas, quotation marks, and other
  appropriate punctuation with each statement

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Language Experience Approach

• At the completion of each statement direct
  attention to the writing, point to the words, and
  read the sentence aloud
• Construct paragraphs. Indent the first sentence
  and begin the next sentence where the previous
  sentence ends.
• Space words and sentences so the writing is clear
  and readable

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Language Experience Approach

• During reading
• The stories should be read aloud several times
• By the teacher
• As a choral reading
• By groups of students
• Individually
• Use natural phrasing, pacing, and pronunciation

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Language Experience Approach

• During follow-up activities
• Use a variety of activities to develop specific
  reading and writing skills
• Sight vocabulary
• Word attack skills
• Comprehension
• Punctuation
• Writing strategies
• Language usage
• Spelling
• Source The Language Experience Approach to
  Reading A Handbook for Teachers by Denise D.
  Nessel and Margaret B. Jones

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Language Experience Approach

• Picture Stories for Adult ESL Health Literacy
• http//www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/Health/hea
  lthindex.htmlEmergency

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Suggested LEA procedure

• Ask the students what is happening in each frame
  of the story.
• Elicit specific details or observations, and if
  students don't have a clear idea of what to say,
  various scenarios can be discussed until the
  class chooses one they like.
• Once the whole story has been elicited orally,
  write it down as they retell it, trying to stay
  close to the students' own language. Smooth it
  out for clarity's sake occasionally, but the
  story should be the students' product, based on
  their ideas.

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Suggested LEA procedure

• Ask questions again to make sure important
  information or vocabulary is included.
• After the story has been written, the class can
  practice reading it chorally and individually.
• Students can then copy it down (it's best to
  leave this step until the end).
• If reading is a skill focus of the class, various
  follow-up activities like sentence or word
  sequencing, or cloze activities can be done in a
  later class. If oral skill development is the
  focus, retelling without reading could be
  practiced.

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Links that Matter

• Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning
  (TCALL)
• http//www-tcall.tamu.edu/
• National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
  http//www.nifl.gov/lincs/
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
  http//www.cal.org/

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Links that Matter cont.

• ESOL Starter Kit Virginia Learning Resource
  Center http//www.aelweb.vcu.edu/publications/ESL
  Kit
• 4Teachers.org http//www.4teachers.org/
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  http//school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.htm
  l

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Links that Matter cont.

• The OWL at Purdue for Writing http//owl.english.p
  urdue.edu/
• El Paso Community College Tutorial Service for
  GED, Math, Writing
• http//www.epcc.edu/Student/Tutorial/tutorialserv
  ices.html