The document discusses the Language Experience Approach (LEA), a teaching method that uses students' own words and experiences to help develop reading and writing skills. In the LEA, the teacher records a student's account of an experience, which becomes reading material for the student. This helps reading comprehension as the student is reading self-generated text. The approach supports concept development, vocabulary growth, and provides opportunities for meaningful reading and writing activities linked to students' personal experiences.

3.  A strategy to develop and reinforce reading and
writing using personal experiences and students’
own repertoire of language.
 The students’ themselves initiate with their own
experiences; through projects and other resulting
interactive activities.
 Ex. Going on a trip, seeing a movie,
Looking at a picture, etc.

5.  Language experience approach is
a method actually uses students
own words to help them read.

6. Some people use this method as
a first approach to reading in order
to help their student understand that
what they’ve drawn and what you
have written is a form of
communication between the student
and yourself.

7. The Language experience approach
supports learner’s concept development and
vocabulary growth while offering many
opportunities for meaningful reading and
writing activities through the use of personal
experiences and oral language.

8. Language
Experience: A Teaching
Approach

9. 1. Teacher and student discuss
the topic to be the focus on the
dictation. Observations and opinions
are exchanged.
Oral Language skills are
developed and reinforced.
discuss the topic to be the focus on
the dictation. Observations and
opinions are exchanged.

10. 2. The Students dictates an account
or story to the Teacher, who records the
statements to construct the basic
reading materials

11. 3. The students’ read the story
several times until the story has
become quite familiar. Reading
comprehension is made easier by the
fact that the student is reading material
that is self generated

12. 4. Individual story words are
learned, the other reading skills are
reinforced through teacher-designed
activities related to the story

13. 5. Students move from reading
their own dictation to reading other-
author materials as they develop
confidence and skill with reading
process

14.  Providing all the input for sometime and
taking the heat off the student
 Advocates the use of picture or word cues to
initiate and contextualize topics of
conversation
 Cooperative Learning

15. Although there is no one “super
method” for language teaching, LEA
offers a:
useful and effective method for
beginning literacy instruction .
How?
by linking the students’ language and
experience in learning

16.  Language experience encourages
students to:
explore, think and talk.
This talk, during and after the language
experience provides:
1. Many opportunities to expand students’
vocabulary,
2.Extend their knowledge of grammar, and
3.Scaffold their interactions.

17.  Language experience activities also
help to provide a bank of
experiences that students have in
common.
 These can be recalled and referred
to in subsequent learning.

18.  Language experience activities are
often related to current topics or to
students’ own lives. They can be
particularly effective when linked to a
specific text.
Examples:
●visiting the supermarket after
reading Finding Mum to find the items
in the story
●using skype to talk to students in
another school before or after reading
Talking to Nanny.

20. A strategy to develop and
reinforce reading and writing
using personal experiences
and students’ own stock
language.